July 13, 2009, - 11:45 am
Hopeless GOP Hopes Only Half of Its 40 Senators Vote No on Sonia From the Block
By Debbie Schlussel
We all know the Republican Party–especially those in the U.S. Congress–are woefully entrenched in a bottomless downward spiral.
Today’s hearings on President Barack Hussein Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor a/k/a So-So are a demonstration of how far the “loyal opposition” has fallen.
Today’s Wall Street Journal reports that Republicans hope that at least 23 Senators vote “no” on Justice J-Lo. But there are 40 Republicans in the Senate. It’s pretty pathetic when you only hope that half of your flock will go your way. That means the Grand Ghould Party will struggle just to get half of its members to say no to this uber-liberal, something that should be a no-brainer for all of them, even the liberals like Olympia Snowe and Susan “Constipation Voice” Collins of Maine.
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Opponents of Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court suggested they would consider it a victory if more than half of the Senate’s 40 Republicans voted against her in this week’s confirmation hearing, as the GOP grapples with how aggressively to challenge the nominee.
Many Republicans said they viewed 23 “no” votes as a benchmark, because that would be one more than Chief Justice John Roberts received in 2005 and would reflect a significant protest vote.
The article claims the GOP hopes for a Democrat or two to say no on So-So. But I’m not holding my breath. The Republicans are so wounded, in such a political coma, that they will likely not get a single Democrat to vote no on So-So and are hoping for only half of their own to say “nay” on Sonia from the Block. Pathetic. This isn’t a loyal opposition or a check on the majority. This is–as I like to say–the equivalent of an insect urinating on the Senate floor. Unless you have a microscope and are looking in precisely the right place, no-one will notice. It’s the sound of one-hand clapping.
Contrast this with the 1987 Ronald Reagan nomination of Judge Robert Bork to the U.S. Supreme Court. Although Bork–a brilliant legal mind skyscrapers above that of So-So in every single way–had his nomination go down in flames, Democrats had party discipline. They voted uniformly against Bork and carried some Republicans with them.
Yes, the Democrats in contemporary decades have been strong in their uniformity against conservatives with great qualifications for the highest bench and in favor of liberals with lackluster ones. Republicans? Well, if your life depended on it, I wouldn’t rely on them to save you from a burning building.
They would have to first take a poll and find out how it would look in the eyes of illegal aliens and traditional Democrat voting blocs who won’t vote for them no matter what.
This is why I am not a Republican (and in the late ’80s I won the “Outstanding Teen Age Republican in the Nation” award). I am a conservative. But we don’t have a party. And it looks like our new titular leader is an uber-selfish airhead with boundless ambition and equally boundless emptiness and ignorance.
And that’s why I don’t look for today’s GOP So-So hopes to only get half of its members to vote no to change any time in the next eight years.
We only keep going down from here.
Today, Justice J-Lo. Tomorrow, Justices Diddy and “Bruno.”
(Graphic from the Wall Street Journal)
Don’t forget President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho.
Let’s kick back a Brawndo!
cirrus1701 on July 13, 2009 at 12:15 pm