“The Sotomayor confirmation vote is looking more like a purely partisan affair, with only a small handful of Senate Republicans backing President Barack Obama’s first nomination for the high court. Six out of seven Republicans on the Judiciary Committee are expected to vote against Sotomayor in the committee vote Tuesday, and only a few Republicans have publicly stated they will support her,” according to Politico.com.
The Sotomayor pick was a trap – and no matter what the GOP do they were going to lose. If they oppose her they alienate Latino voters. If they support her they alienate their Talibani base.
Obama won this hand easily. Sotomayor will be confirmed and Latinos will be more blue than ever. The sad-sack Republican Senators will huff and puff and watch their membership continue to dwindle. They are now down to 40. They had the full run of the Senate just a few years ago. Now they are a dying party with no hope in sight.
Hate on Obama and Sotomayor all you want. They won. And the Republicans are more lost than ever.
You are being a little melodramatic, Art. It will be nice when the GOP outgrows the culture war b.s. and when Latino voters and other voters drawn to the Dems by affinity and group loyalty see a more mature GOP as a viable alternative for fiscally responsible llimited government.
I agree with number one post wholeheartedly.
You write “The sad-sack Republican Senators will huff and puff and watch their membership continue to dwindle.” I just read some of the Health Care initiatives, and I can guarantee you that Latinos will not be voting in Obama let alone another one like him. The fact of the matter is that their are allot of us that are illegal, but their are allot more of us that not. Yes it is true that when we become legal and feel the tax pinch, we turn our backs on those that are not legal. Why because we like all other nationalities don’t want to pay for someone else’s necessity. Plus when you really look at it, the US should be sending that bill to the country that forced these people to come here illegally, not the TAX PAYER! DUH OBAMA…
post 3 good write up . im sure art does not agree with you . i belive most LEGAL LATINOS are against illegals . and their free handouts and to think that all latinos will vote dem because some of us follow the law and they also follow the law and will vote for the law breakers and those that cut in line and get handouts while hard working people struggle . or get free loans , aka dream act that will never get paid back . they are not robots and unlike someone on this blog they all dont think the same way .
“Sotomayor pick was a trap – and the Republican Senators fell for it”
The exact opposite is true
“Sotomayor pick was a trap – and the Latinos fell for it”
Obama intentionally picked incompetent Latina to show that Latinos are not ready to sit on the highest court.
you guys got to renember its a pedroza post so you know their will be a anti latino republican post .