And it's not just Republicans who made a bad choice. Democrats, too, have failed to use this hearing to their advantage. With an opportunity to talk to all of America about their theory of jurisprudence and to make the case against the Roberts Court's narrow view of justice, they said almost nothing. Some of the only questioning along those lines came from Sen. Al Franken, who made Sotomayor very uncomfortable as he grilled her on the Roberts Court's tendency to overreach. In this term's Voting Rights Act case, the court came close to striking down an act of Congress, and in an age-discrimination case, it decided an issue that was never briefed. Franken politely asked Sotomayor, "How often have you decided a case on an argument or a question that the parties have not briefed?" He wondered whether that constituted judicial activism.
Good question. Why was the junior senator from Minnesota--the one sworn in only a week ago--the first one asking it?

You know whatever you may think of the GOP's Southern Strategy from a moral point of view, at least, for a long period of time, it was smart politics. But those days are long gone.  

As heard on NPR last evening, this guy is trying to get an initiative to the ballot that will not recognize the US-born children of "illegal" immigrants as citizens.

46% of voters decided they'd rather have continued the worst presidential clusterphuques in history rather than vote for Barack Obama.

Obama now owns all the crises. And has a few of his own. He hasn't won many of that 46% over.

More and more I think the GOP threw the election in order to saddle the Dims with the complete impossibility of reforming any significant amount of the Bush programs, and to let the Dims demonstrate their "inability to govern" in the ruins of Bushivism that will still be around in another three years, but will have the indelible stamp of Obama and the Dims upon it.

Indeed.

before getting too complacent, bear in mind something that always seems to escape the notice of the democrats: the world, and hence the US, is filled with stupid people. as the population grows, so too the number of stupid people.

they watch o'reilly, listen to rush, revel in their ignorance and, most importantly, vote republican. these are the same people who swooned over sara palin, defending her against the (correct) charge that two gerbils were better qualified to be president than she is.

these are the same, un or underinsured, people who claim a public option health insurance plan would result in "socialized", "rationed" medical care, having no clue what the former is, and not realizing they currently suffer from the latter.