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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 06/20/2009 : 03:10:55
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And yet, OK keeps sending this insufferable jackass back to the Senate. One hypothesis is that Oklahoma's voters aren't at all stupid; they send him back because as long as he is busy embarrassing them and the country in Washington, he won't be doing it at home. Republican Senator Inhofe Refuses To Even Meet With Sotomayor
Posted by JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief in Politics on Jun 19th, 2009
So much with any pretense of being anything but a person with a set-in-concrete ideology: Republican Senator Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) has made it known that he won't EVEN MEET with Barack Obama Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.
It would be inconceivable 10, 20 or any number of years ago that any United States Senator whose duty includes voting on Supreme Court nominees would REFUSE to meet with a Supreme Court nominee, arguing that, why, he already knows he's going to vote against her. So why bother to sit down and hear from her own lips how she'd answer questions from him? Why waste the time?
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I have always thought that there were certain protocols to be observed in these matters, and a couple of the big ones are common courtesy and decency. Evidently, either I was wrong or Inhofe is so enslaved by his ingrained prejudices and wall-eyed foresight that he is incapable of thinking outside of his self-constructed, intellectual iron maiden.
In which case, Sotomayor is the better off for non-acquaintance. As Inhofe himself would imply: why meet with a known scumbag?
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
 Posted - 06/20/2009 : 09:00:00 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
I have always thought that there were certain protocols to be observed in these matters, and a couple of the big ones are common courtesy and decency. Evidently, either I was wrong or Inhofe is so enslaved by his ingrained prejudices and wall-eyed foresight that he is incapable of thinking outside of his self-constructed, intellectual iron maiden.
In which case, Sotomayor is the better off for non-acquaintance. As Inhofe himself would imply: why meet with a known scumbag?
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The fool won't even put on a show of being fair minded. What a jerk. He is probably too stupid to understand that by not meeting with her, his opinions about her can't be taken seriously by anyone. Even Republicans will have to distance themselves from him so as to not expose their real motives.
He seems to be one of the only people up there who doesn't understand that the Republican objections to the nominee are nothing but a Carl Rove style public relations stunt.
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Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 06/20/2009 : 09:29:59 [Permalink]
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Well; if he refuses to do his congressional duties, should it be ground for impeachment?
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Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Chippewa
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 06/20/2009 : 09:57:37 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Kil
...The fool won't even put on a show of being fair minded. What a jerk. He is probably too stupid to understand that by not meeting with her, his opinions about her can't be taken seriously by anyone...
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 06/20/2009 : 13:06:42 [Permalink]
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The GOP have been in power so long, they seem to have totally forgotten how to play an effective role as a minority, "loyal opposition" party. They project the image of a disloyal opposition, one that can't come to grips with the fact that they are no longer in power. They show no grace, no determination to learn from their failures.
In politics as in war, knowing how to retreat in a disciplined manner is at least as important as knowing how to advance. I'm amazed at the utter disorder as the Republicans retreat. In my long memory, neither party has ever before shown such disarray when they've lost power.
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The Rat
SFN Regular
Canada
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Posted - 06/20/2009 : 19:20:18 [Permalink]
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I think this should provide legal grounds for a hefty kick in the nuts.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 06/21/2009 : 00:46:48 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by The Rat
I think this should provide legal grounds for a hefty kick in the nuts.
But that's just me.
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Not that the President would be as rude as I am, but as I see it, Obama would be justified next time that Senators are invited to the White House to be filled in on a matter such as national defense intelligence, to exclude Jim Inhofe from the guest list. The reason given could be, "Flaky personality; possible security risk." Then again, as you say, The Rat, "But that's just me."
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 06/21/2009 : 09:02:17 [Permalink]
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I would actually do just that.
But quoting the jackass's own argument. |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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