Dems warn GOP of backlash for opposing Sotomayor
Posted on 30. Jul, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Audio-Video, Gun Control, Immigration, Opinion, Politics, Shera Crossan, Top Stories
The Senate debate over Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor turned bitter Wednesday, after Democrats warned the GOP it would pay a steep price for opposing the judge who would be the first Hispanic justice, and a top Republican charged they were playing destructive racial politics.
Majority Leader Harry Reid implored Republicans Wednesday to join Democrats in voting to confirm Sotomayor next week, warning that GOP opposition would bring the same sort of public backlash that followed the party’s spirited opposition to measures that would have given some illegal immigrants a chance to gain legal status. “I just think that their voting against this good woman is going to treat them about the same way that they got treated as a result of their votes on immigration,” said Reid, D-Nev.
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, the head of his party’s Senate campaign committee and a Sotomayor opponent, shot back that Reid and other Democrats were trying to exploit the nomination and “giving cover to groups and individuals to nurture racial grievances for political advantage.”
Democrats, too, risk inviting public ire if they are seen to be using Sotomayor’s race as a cudgel against Republicans rather than promoting her based on qualifications and record — particularly in the age of Obama’s “post-racial” politics.
The decision on how to vote on her confirmation was made more difficult in recent days for some Republicans and Democrats from conservative-leaning battleground states after the National Rifle Association, which has a loyal and politically active base of members, announced that a vote to confirm Sotomayor would count against senators in the group’s annual candidate ratings. The NRA calls Sotomayor “hostile” to the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. Since the NRA’s threat, no Republican or conservative Democrat has come out publicly to support Sotomayor.More
The NRA finally got off its ass and showed a little public courage.
Amazing.
Anybody interested in writing a letter to Senator John Cornyn can write to:
Sen John Cornyn
Senate
Washington DC 2 0 5 1 0
Just say:
“Thank you for opposing Sotomayor.”
You can never go wrong by supporting your friends and ignoring your enemies.
Remember the Burke quote:
“No one could make a greater mistake
than he who did nothing because he
could do only a little”.
Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
As much as it pains me to quote him, there is one person who had it right….
“In the end, we will not remember the voices of our enemies, only the silence of our freinds”….MLK Jr.
Sonia Sotomayor is typical of the composition of the Supreme Court in less than 10 years.
There will be no Justice for Whites in the United States. Whites are going to end up like the Whites in Zimbabwe and South Africa if we don’t stand up for our rights.
These minorities are going to be given jobs according to quotas, not ability.
Whites will compete against other Whites for the slots reserved for Whites.
Blacks will compete against other blacks.
Whites and Blacks are held to different standards. Whites must have clean criminal records to hold government jobs such as teachers, police officers, etc.
Blacks commit most crime. It is almost impossible to hire blacks with no criminal records.
As a result, Black teachers, police officers and etc ofter are hired in spite of the fact they have criminal records.
Whites are not hired that have criminal records.
Different races, different treatment.
Get used to it. It is only going to get worse until we stand up and demand our rights.
“it would pay a steep price”. Threatening gesture if I ever heard one.
@John Taurus, its like you wrote the history of my life in NYC.
@Vilinius, yes it sounds definitely like a threat to me as well.