today in politics

[rm]

Seriously?

Prop 8 decision and Obama announces Supreme Court nominee (word is it's Sonia Sotomayer) on the same day?

And then there's this: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/opinion/26douthat.html (the argument of which seems to be "we need more sexual stigma!" while continuing to advance the idea that women leading over men in anything is Really Scary).

Is someone trying to make the Internet explode?

Comments

What a terrible concept - a judge who might care slightly.

[count-to-seven.livejournal.com]

I just heard on NPR that the GOP are threatening to filibuster her nomination because Obama expressed a desire to appoint an empathetic judge. I really can't express how ridiculous I find that.

Re: What a terrible concept - a judge who might care slightly.

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

Yes - empathy. What a terrible thing!

*sigh*

I guess they don't realize that empathy moves towards all people - even them. :/

N.

Re: What a terrible concept - a judge who might care slightly.

[anterastilis.livejournal.com]

Oh God NO!! ANYTHING but EMPATHY!!

Re: What a terrible concept - a judge who might care slightly.

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

More absurd: when the Dems floated her as a possibility under Bush, they cried foul because she's "moderate or neutral, not conservative."

[insert incoherent noises here.]

Re: What a terrible concept - a judge who might care slightly.

[sethg]

Hasn't it been obvious for the past six months that the GOP will filibuster whoever Obama nominates to the Court?

Re: What a terrible concept - a judge who might care slightly.

[count-to-seven.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but is that honestly the best excuse they could come up with?

Re: What a terrible concept - a judge who might care slightly.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

There's probably a certain amount of dog-whistling in their wording of their objection, alas. They can't say, "because she's an uppity Puerto Rican woman", but that's the way certain right-wingers will see her.

In less depressing news, I love the icon.

[tdanaher.livejournal.com]

Not Susan Sotomayer; Sonia Sotomayor.

[thornsilver]

I think that article made my head explode.

[sykii.livejournal.com]

For further explodey, and somehow philosophically akin to the Douthat piece, how about this one, in which a conservative writer makes points that are so WOMST101 that it's hard to believe he's not a liberal plant? (I'm linking to Bilerico Project's disassembly of it because it's pretty great in its own right): http://www.bilerico.com/2009/05/opposing_gay_marriage_for_all_the_wrong.php

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

IIIIIIII seeeeee...same sex marriage might lead to Irish people marrying Italians. Ooooooookaaaaaaay...

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

Clearly the Obama Junta is trying to install a SCJ with an anti-kitten-eating-alien bias!

Look! Butterflys!

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

http://www.the-impossible-project.com/

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

Wait, hang on. This guy thought the porn wars were a good thing? And he thinks stigma will make people happier?

Dude, I can tell you what made women happier in the fifties. It's called fucking VALIUM.

*twitch*

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

Has the NY author not grasped the fact that just maybe women now feel more freedom to express the fact they're not happy than in previous decades? Also coming up with new stigmas is just weird. Tolerance and open-minded society not an option?

[fragiletender.livejournal.com]

"There’s no necessary reason why feminists and cultural conservatives can’t join forces"

Oh wait, I've got a reason, pick me, pick me! How about the fact that many cultural conservatives would rather people like me just didn't exist, or if we must exist can we please get back in the closet so they won't have to think about us.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

About the only thing I can think of where theoretically they would have a common purpose is in foreign policy - "git those brown folks who dare oppress them wimmins!"

[djfanboy.livejournal.com]

Is someone trying to make the Internet explode?

Since the beginning of time.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Not like it needs prompting, harrumph.

[djfanboy.livejournal.com]

rummpapump to your harrumph!

[sethg]

Actually, men are not happier than women.

[ladypeculiar.livejournal.com]

EMPATHETIC JUDGES WANT TO KILL PUPPES.

*headdesk*

[tdanaher.livejournal.com]

Prop 8 has been upheld. Existing marriages are being grandfathered in.

(edited to clarify: Existing marriages will be recognized.)