The GOP response to President Obama’s nomination of Sonia Sotomayor seems to be walk softly and carry a huge magnifying glass.
Also, you can listen here to a podcast about what to expect.
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A GOP birdie reminds me that the Dems paid little heed to Hispanic voters when they filibustered Miguel Estrada’s nomination to the DC …
Is this one from the New Yorker’s Atul Gawande, looking at why health care costs are so high in McAllen, Texas–and why more health care isn’t the same as better health care.:
When you look across the spectrum from Grand Junction to McAllen—and the almost threefold difference in the costs of care—you come to realize that we
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So notes our colleague Richard Lacayo.
In the category of who’d have thunk to have asked goes this gem, kudos to the booker, from CNN’s The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer today:
Alberto Gonzales: I think it’s a proud day for the Sotomayor family. It’s a historic day for the Hispanic community. I don’t think that any gender group or ethnic group is entitled to
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(By Brooks Kraft, via our White House Photo Blog)
Judge Sotomayor, we are told, “was raised as a Catholic and attends church for family celebrations and other important events.” For those of you keeping score at home, that’s the description of a non-practicing, cultural Catholic. Stand down, Notre Dame protestors.
Cultural conservatives who were gearing up to use Obama’s first Supreme Court nomination as a fundraising opportunity will find Sonia Sotomayor a difficult sell. Indeed, in the weeks leading up to today’s announcement, they have paid much more attention to the judicial sins of another applicant, Diane Wood. Ed Whelan, of the Ethics and …
Here’s my story for TIME.com.
First off, it must be said that Second Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor appears to have a relatively easy path to confirmation on the U.S. Supreme Court, if President Obama announces her nomination later this morning, as the Associated Press has reported he will. The likelihood of a filibuster is slim. Democrats control nearly 60, if
There is all sorts of hand-wringing going on today about North Korea’s nuclear explosion, which the Washington Post says is a test of the Obama Administration’s engagement policy. It isn’t. Some thoughts:
1. First, some perspective: the fact that North Korea has a bomb and missiles isn’t nearly as significant as the fact that it has …
There are so many gross problems with this RNC video comparing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to the James Bond character Pussy Galore that I don’t know where to begin. For those Republicans worried that attacks on Pelosi might backfire — this is exactly the kind of over-the-top sexist gambit they should be losing sleep over.
Democrats, from the President on down, are trying to get Congressman Joe Sestak to back off, to let Arlen Specter have a free run for the U.S. Senate, as a Democrat from Pennsylvania.
Maybe I’m old-fashioned, but it seems to me that if a sitting U.S. Senator decides to change parties simply because he perceives a better chance of …
Signs coming out of the White House suggest that it may be announced within hours. The NYT’s Peter Baker reports that White House officials are saying the list is now down to four women. The paper has done profiles of all of these candidates recently, giving us a sense of what direction each might take the court: Solicitor General Elena …
