Right-winger and former Rep. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) has welcomed Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) to the next year’s Pennsylvania Senate race.
Sestak may well challenge pathetic Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.) in next year’s Democratic primary.
In a statement, Toomey praised Sestak for being a “principled liberal.”
But the “L” word is no longer like being called a “commie,” Pat.
And, [...]
(tx to NYTimes for finding this one)
Word is the GOP won’t fillibuster the Sotomayor nomination.
For this we’re supposed to be relieved?
This is all the Republicans have? The threat of extended temper tantrums tying up the Senate floor?
Better question: And the Democrats let them get away with this crap?
From the WashPost:
“Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor launched her Senate outreach campaign today through phone calls to key Democrats and Republicans and will begin face-to-face meetings when lawmakers return to the Capitol next week.
“Some previous nominees have paid visits to as many three quarters of senators, Democratic aides said, but Sotomayor’s itinerary hasn’t been [...]
“It’d be like carrying around a bowling ball — you could do it, but why would you?” he added. “I don’t feel unsafe here.”
A Texas dentist, hiking around a lake with his son in a National Park. That’s from a New York Times piece about National Park officials trying to figure out rules for [...]
The Columbia Journalism Review reports that MSNBC know-it-all Chris Matthews’ latest blatherings are that the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court is “like the start of a campaign.”
Matthews is beyond hope.
Chicago radio tonsil “Mancow” Muller should have been waterboarded years ago — for his odious career. You may have seen him featured on Keith Olbermann’s MSNBC two nights in a row, because he called waterboarding “torture.”
This is the same clown who was once fired from S.F. radio station KMEL for stopping traffic on the Bay [...]
Pulitzer-winning Byron Pitts makes a convincing argument in this recent Miami Herald column for looking ahead — rather than back at the Bush administration years:
” If incompetence were a crime, you might have a case. Heck, if arrogance were a felony, you could put them on Death Row.”
This is an argument I’ve made for years [...]
Recommended reading: Eugene Robinson’s WashPost piece on the difference in outlook between two men. Excerpts:
“In Obama World, it’s always morning. The sun is shining, the birds are chirping and the pollen count is low. In Cheney World, it’s perpetual twilight. Somewhere in the distance, a lone wolf howls at the rising moon.
“In Obama World, [...]