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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
My characterization of her speeches "is not quite accurate"? Bitch, please. You haven't watched her speeches. If you are just going to accept whatever she says at the hearing as post hoc rationalization ("honest, Senator, I was just stirring the pot"), then whatever. I'm inclined to support her based on what I know, but I know different lefties whose judgment I trust who feel differently about her.
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I didn't watch them, but I heard them. They were read into the record during the hearings (not verbatim of course, just those portions that Shumer and Kennedy were concerned about). And I already granted the confirmation conversion in my post, so Bitch please yourself.
[As an aside, "Bitch please" is such a tired, played out line that the only people who use it are over the hill, non-hip, white boys (and girls) who want to sound hip]
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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop And don't give me this about "nearly all the minority candidates" nominated. So far they've opposed Estrada and maybe Brown (jury is still out, from what I can tell). Others, like Judge Bea, got through fine. Other candidates filibustered include Pryor (white man), what's her name from Texas (white woman), and Pickering (white man). So not even a majority of those filibustered are minority.
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Precilla Owens is here name. When I said nearly all minorities, I meant those nominated to the appeals court. I don't know what the status of the district court is, but the DEM strategy is clear. They don't want a minority justice up for the Supremes because those hearings actually get publicity and they will have a hard time splaining to their core constituency why they are opposing.
