Thank God The Republicans Are So Stupid

You'd think they'd know how to handle Sotomayor's nomination, with a little restraint, given the whole thing about demographics, voting patterns, and the GOP's present plight. But thank God they've thrown restraint to the wind and are exercising themselves mightily in pursuit of eventual extreme isolation.

Is extremism in pursuit of extinction a vice? No, for the GOP it's a virtue. You know, a sure way to get over the pain in one foot is to shoot yourself in the other. At least until you realize that now both feet not only hurt but you fall down and go boom. I love it.

I say I love it, but there are things I don't love about it. Personally I can't stomach human garbage like Tom Tancredo, but hey, if he's sacrificing the party for the good of the cause, more power to him. It's not like I'm going to tune in and watch him -- since I do have a tender tummy, and only so many brain cells I'm willing to waste.

It looks like we're seeing the genius of Barack Obama at work. These morons have to know there's a hook in that big piece of bait, and yet they seem oblivious. They're going for it every time. 2010 can't get here soon enough, then 2012. Then, if all goes well, we'll put an exhibit in the Smithsonian, "Great Moments In Republican History," since, by then, we hope they'll be entirely kaput. A guy can dream, can't he?

The really weird thing is it actually seems possible. The Republican party is suicidal. Someone throw them an anvil.

New Supreme Court Nominee

We have one. And of course the Republicans are against her. Like they were going to be against anyone.

If you're against anyone to the left of Judge Bork, that's not principle, that's just nitpicking.

Defeating The Nominee

This is a weird sentence about the Supreme Court vacancy and getting it filled:

On Capitol Hill, Republicans acknowledged the long odds they faced to defeat the eventual nominee unless Obama makes a selection that is easily portrayed as outside the mainstream of legal thinking.

Is that the Republicans' only goal, to defeat every nominee who comes along? So what if they had their way, we'd still have three or four vacancies on the Supreme Court by the time Obama's years were over? That's a weird thing to say.

I mean, really, they can't filibuster it for close to eight years, can they? And any other vacancies that come along.

Supreme Court Stuff

Oh, here we go. Justice Souter is retiring so President Obama has the responsibility to select someone else to fill his place.

It seems like it ought to be an easy proposition. But the Republicans -- cursed be their name -- will no doubt try to obstruct, do their usual shenanigans, and filibuster.

It seems like it wasn't that long ago when they were saying a nominee by the president deserves an up or down vote. It seems to me that their doctrine a few years ago was that it was even unconstitutional to filibuster a court nominee. And in fact it seems like they were prepared to do some "nuclear option" to do away with the filibuster all together.

But of course that was a few years ago, when this unprincipled bunch had different "principles."