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captainsblogI have a confession to make: I'm a closet Dittohead. My travels usually take me all around this town and that town, more often than not in the early afternoon, and the radio choices are limited at those hours, so I listen to de facto GOP Chair Rush Limbaugh about as much as anyone. This is partly because he really is a decent entertainer (despite how much he hates being called that), but also based on the Ancient Chinese Chi-com advice to keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.
From his formerly Oxycontin-stained lips, I have learned much about the true principles of conservatism. About how this nation was founded on principles of liberty and opportunity, and on encouraging hard work rather than dependency on government to solve all of one's problems.
So I expected to hear him react positively to a Supreme Court nominee who embraced those values and principles. One who was born into the cradle of government dependency, in a Bronx housing project, but who, through her own love of learning and reading, rose above the fray based on her own accomplishments and intellect- choosing not to become a welfare queen or an ADC/AFDC ward of the state with multiple Latin lovers passing briefly by her womb, but instead getting through two of the toughest academic programs in the nation, attracting the attention of a conservative Republican president in 1991 who thought her worthy of a lifetime appointment to the judiciary, and surviving even the GOP-controlled Senate in 1998 to get to her current spot on the second-highest federal court in the nation /NYprejudice.
But no. I heard her called a "racist," and a "bigot," and everything short of wanting to checking if she weighs more than a duck in order to see if she's made of wood.
And Rush insists on over-emphasizing the pronunciation of her Latina name, when he never refers to a certain Coke-drinking jurist as "Clar-T, yo" or his most reliable colleague on the SCOTUS as "Tony Scales." Please explain, to those of us in Rio Linda who just don't understand your utter hypocrisy.
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Speaking of pubic hair: this was one of the front-page headlines in our town's weekly paper yesterday:
There is no report on whether Amherst Police, or anyone on the current roster of the Buffalo Bills, had any reaction to this news.
From his formerly Oxycontin-stained lips, I have learned much about the true principles of conservatism. About how this nation was founded on principles of liberty and opportunity, and on encouraging hard work rather than dependency on government to solve all of one's problems.
So I expected to hear him react positively to a Supreme Court nominee who embraced those values and principles. One who was born into the cradle of government dependency, in a Bronx housing project, but who, through her own love of learning and reading, rose above the fray based on her own accomplishments and intellect- choosing not to become a welfare queen or an ADC/AFDC ward of the state with multiple Latin lovers passing briefly by her womb, but instead getting through two of the toughest academic programs in the nation, attracting the attention of a conservative Republican president in 1991 who thought her worthy of a lifetime appointment to the judiciary, and surviving even the GOP-controlled Senate in 1998 to get to her current spot on the second-highest federal court in the nation /NYprejudice.
But no. I heard her called a "racist," and a "bigot," and everything short of wanting to checking if she weighs more than a duck in order to see if she's made of wood.
And Rush insists on over-emphasizing the pronunciation of her Latina name, when he never refers to a certain Coke-drinking jurist as "Clar-T, yo" or his most reliable colleague on the SCOTUS as "Tony Scales." Please explain, to those of us in Rio Linda who just don't understand your utter hypocrisy.
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Speaking of pubic hair: this was one of the front-page headlines in our town's weekly paper yesterday:
There is no report on whether Amherst Police, or anyone on the current roster of the Buffalo Bills, had any reaction to this news.
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Date: 2009-05-28 04:32 pm (UTC)An interesting read. She scares me a bit with her ideas, but I'm an old-fashioned gal that believes the Constitution should be the deciding factor in Supreme Court rulings.
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Date: 2009-05-28 05:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-28 10:50 pm (UTC)