Saturday, June 20, 2009
Sotomayor Quits Women's Club
Shame on you, Judge Sotomayor. Stick to your guns and associate with whomever you wish, as is your right under the Constitution.
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The Fish: The fish is a "coat of arms" for the blog, symbolizing three formative influences in the life of the blog founder. The first is his experience at the University of Virginia--symbolized most importantly by the fish itself, or a caricature of a "Wahoo", the fish we have acquired as an informal nickname. Additionally there is the sword, the sword of a Cavalier. It is not wielded in a threatening manner, as this is a civil blog. But it is there, should it be needed. Thirdly, there is the influence of 21 years in the Navy--symbolized by the anchor on the Wahoo's fin (and again, the sword) . Finally, there is the bowler, tuxedo, and monocle, symbols of a refined, intellectual conservatism, or what I seek to encourage here.
The Policy: I take FULL responsibility for what I write. I will not be held responsible for the content of my comments section--as long as it is civil and passes my own inscrutable sniff tests, it will appear. If the comment offends you, that is on you.
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1 comment:
The GoP played this lie (as in golf, not as in "I did not have sex with that woman" or "I'm going to clean up the corruption in Washington") wrong. They should have raised it, not as an issue, but as an "I hope you will apply the same consideration to any similar case that comes before the Court that you gave to joining and maintaining your membership in this exclusive women's club" sort of way. They could have continued with "We are on your side on this one, Judge Sotomayor. We believe the Constitution you have sworn to uphold provides the basic human right of any citizen to assemble with any other citizen who so consents and that government has absolutely no say in the matter." I think that would have been a more resonating and, in the future, useful approach. We've got to quit losing sight of what it is we stand for in our zeal to oppose whatever the other side proposes. If you haven't listened to the grassroots groups co-mingling with Administration officials that pretty well flood the CSPAN radio waves each day, there is an excitement in the Democratic Party and they firmly believe that what they are doing is fixing a horribly broken United States of America and that they are on a mission the likes of which this nation has not seen since the Civil War. When people feel they are on a, so-to-speak, "mission from God", all that confrontations such as GoP just did with Sotomayor become are the equivalent of mosquitos buzzing around your ear...annoying, mildly-distracting and something you want to squash the second you get the chance...unless of course the President buckles to intense pressure from his core constituency and signs an Exec Order directing staff/government officials to "relocate" buzzing pests instead of swatting them. But I digress.
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