Republicans Outraged by Obama’s Supreme Court Appointment »
Posted By Spadecaller 6 months, 3 weeks ago in Humor
With the advent of Justice Souter’s upcoming retirement from the Supreme Court, Republicans on the Judiciary committee are up in arms over President’s Obama’s replacement choice, which has not been announced yet.
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Spadecaller6 months, 3 weeks ago
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Will the next nominee for the Supreme Court belong to the right church? Will she believe in the Bible? Will she support the institution of marriage? One thing is certain; Republicans are confident that the unannounced nominee does not meet their criteria.
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The latest rumor floating around in the halls of Congress describes Obama’s unnamed appointee as a friend of Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s neighbor for over twenty years. And the neighbor’s closest friend was a member of the Black Panthers during the late sixties as well as a good friend of the anti-Semitic Louis Farrakhan. Republicans are outraged.-
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hyperbola6 months, 3 weeks ago
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The GOP attempts to divide Americans to keep them dumb and docile prevent us from responding to being fleeced by the oligarchs of both parties (including the Obama administration).
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The peasant mentality lives on in America
...This must be a terrible time to be a right-winger. A vicious paradox has been thrust upon the once-ascendant conservatives. On the one hand they are out of power, and so must necessarily rail against the Obama administration. On the other hand they have to vilify, as dangerous anticapitalist activity, the grass-roots protests against the Geithner bailouts and the excess of companies like AIG. That leaves them with no recourse but to dream up wholesale lunacies along the lines of Glenn Beck’s recent “Fascism With a Happy Face” rants, which link the protesting “populists” and the Obama adminstration somehow and imagine them as one single nefarious, connected, ongoing effort to install a totalitarian regime.
This is not a simple rhetorical accomplishment. It requires serious mental gymnastics to describe the Obama administration — particularly the Obama administration of recent weeks, which has given away billions to Wall Street and bent over backwards to avoid nationalization and pursue a policy that preserves the private for-profit status of the bailed-out banks — as a militaristic dictatorship of anti-wealth, anti-private property forces. You have to somehow explain the Geithner/Paulson decisions to hand over trillions of taxpayer dollars to the rich bankers as the formal policy expression of progressive rage against the rich. Not easy. In order to pull off this argument, in fact, you have to grease the wheels with a lot of apocalyptic language and imagery, invoking as Beck did massive pictures of Stalin and Orwell and Mussolini (side by side with shots of Geithner, Obama and Bernanke), scenes of workers storming the Winter Palace interspersed with anti-AIG protests, etc. — and then maybe you have to add a crazy new twist, like switching from complaints of “socialism” to warnings of “fascism.” Rhetorically, this is the equivalent of trying to paint a picture by hurling huge handfuls of paint at the canvas. It’s desperate, last-ditch-ish behavior. -
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hyperbola6 months, 3 weeks ago
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And, of course, the stories spread by the "Obama crowd" are not much better. Just a new label for fleecing Americans for military imperialism and corrupt oligarchs.
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Buying Brand Obama
http://www.propeller.com/story/2009/05/05/buying-b...
Barack Obama is a brand. And the Obama brand is designed to make us feel good about our government while corporate overlords loot the Treasury, our elected officials continue to have their palms greased by armies of corporate lobbyists, our corporate media diverts us with gossip and trivia and our imperial wars expand in the Middle East. Brand Obama is about being happy consumers. We are entertained. We feel hopeful. We like our president. We believe he is like us. But like all branded products spun out from the manipulative world of corporate advertising, we are being duped into doing and supporting a lot of things that are not in our interest.
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Eagle_Eye6 months, 3 weeks ago
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"Republicans are confident that the unannounced nominee does not meet their criteria. "
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No matter what Obama does, it will not meet their criteria, pretty sad...good thing they are becoming an endangered species and dying out....or changing parties -
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gwhiddon6 months, 3 weeks ago
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"Isn't it nice that we can depend on Republicans to rally around their failing party while forsaking the best interests of their nation?"
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Uh, that's what you Dems were doing after Regan was elected.
Nothing is forever. You have plans for a one party dictatorship for life?
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gamahuche6 months, 3 weeks ago
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Nice one SC!
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I can't wait to hear from the nattering nabobs of nihilism, the underpowered, retreaded gas-guzzling wannabes and the half-baked head-up their rear-end apologists for the inexcusably moronic, greatly unlamented ex-denizen of the WH. -
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tanglang6 months, 3 weeks ago
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fiftynine6 months, 3 weeks ago
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I gave you a pos on principle.Yes the dems were not happy with bushes nominations,and were very vocal about it. (this is where i wish there was a rating instead of a pos or neg),but we at least waited until there was a name.
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That's why i don't see the hypocrisy. -
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vor6 months, 3 weeks ago
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98% of bush's judicial appointees were approved. It became one of the usual inane GOP talking points that the Dem's were succesfully blocking his nominees. One of Bush's legacies will be the conservative stamp he placed on the courts, particularly in the case of Alito and Roberts.
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Something tells me that Obama will make a better choice than Harriet Myers on his first attempt. -
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mesodude6 months, 3 weeks ago
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"How happy were the dems with every one of the nominations Bush made? It wasn't that long ago that you guys were doing the same thing you claim the republicans will do now. What a bunch of hypocrites yall are."
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--Uhh...My what an extremely short memory you people have. After p*ssing and moaning about how Bush should be given a blank check during the Alito hearings, you cons torpedoed Harriet Miers (oh dear...what happened to "Bush has a right to an up or down vote...blah blah"?) and then eventually snuck in the stealth white surpremacist as Chief Justice. Get serious, tangy. -
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beavith16 months, 3 weeks ago
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Wolfie20076 months, 3 weeks ago
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antibrainwasher6 months, 3 weeks ago
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Hundred bucks says whiningpoodlewoffee will whimper and bark whom ever Obama nominates, thus proving the point of the article.
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If Obama nominated Dick Cheney, woffeepoodle would still bray like a mule in heat. I look forward to the explosion of crying and whining when the nomination is set.
Its a football game, and the repugs have painted their faces and are still loyalists, loosing 60 to nothing, bleachers are empty, but 20 loyalist lockstepping morons are bleating and catcalling. -
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alakazam6 months, 3 weeks ago
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Whoever gets tapped for the job I hope they are moderate in their views.
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Extremism is tearing this country apart and I am getting so tired of having to worry whether the next politician or judge is gonna walk on one Freedom or the other.
How about a little less Party line and a little more America first.
We are in a mess folks and we have to do something different from what got us here ...even if it's gonna require compromise(***gasp/horror***)and working together on the solution.
Though I do guess that sometimes an old saw is indeed true- "Some men you just can't reason with".-
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Spadecaller6 months, 3 weeks ago
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Well alakazam, I second your sentiments and wish that bibpartisan support could help our nation work productively .
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However, when Orin Hatch and other Republicans are already objecting to a nonexistent nominee that Obama may select - already talking about using a "filibuster," one must conclude that we have a problem with extremist partisans who plan on hijacking any attempts our President should make for this nation.
I suppose Limbaugh was correct; they want to see Obama fail and do not care about this nation.
Voters should get rid of these partisan maniacs so that we can learn to work together.
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Spadecaller6 months, 3 weeks ago
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When your political party equates empathy with radical extremism, it becomes increasingly clear why only 20% of the country wants to be associated with you:
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Hatch raised concerns initially that Obama was using “buzz words” for a liberal activist justice by suggesting he wanted someone who had “empathy” for the country’s problems. But Obama told Hatch “that was not what he meant, and I take him at his word … and that he assured me that he would not be picking a radical or an extremist for the court that he was very pragmatic in his approach and that he would pick somebody who would abide by the rule of law.”
I guess after bastardizing the meaning of "compassionate conservative," Republicans have difficulty with words like "empathy". They must think they are laced in deceit and subterfuge also. -
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Spadecaller6 months, 3 weeks ago
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I am noticing a similar theme among the Propeller wingnuts; they are unable to respond to the topic and incapable of seeing the humor in those that are denouncing Obama for a nominee that has not even been proposed. That is what is "amazing.".
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donald516 months, 3 weeks ago
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Yes, with Roberts, alito, thomas and scalia we already have votes for throwing out habeas corpus, more torture, eavesdropping on Americans w/o warrant and the Unitary executive (but only if a repug is pres) to negate the other two branches of government!
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