Crazy Wingnut Criticism Of Sotomayor Is Almost Amusing

Megan — Thu, 28 May 2009 10:00:00 EDT

Wow: there are apparently conservatives suggesting that Judge Sonia Sotomayor's enjoyment of traditional Puerto Rican food will impact her ability to be a mouth-breathing, lock-step conservative justice in the grand school of Clarence "Oral Arguments Are Nap Times" Thomas. [TalkingPointsMemo]

And a bunch of racist Republicans, including Newt "Who Needs Latino Voters" Gingrich and Tom "I See Brown People" Tancredo, swear they know one when they see one... and that Sotomayor fits the bill. [Politico, ThinkProgress]
Pat "The Nazis Weren't That Bad" Buchanan thinks Sotomayor got the nomination because of Affirmative Action, because all white men are obviously more qualified than a Princeton-and-Yale educated appeals court judge! [ThinkProgress]
Mark Krikorian thinks Sotomayor's a racist for insisting people pronounce her name correctly, and feels discriminated against because he's not allowed to Anglicize it. As someone who refuses to completely Anglicize her name for the likes of anyone — particularly with a name like Krikorian — Mark Corker can go fuck himself. [ThinkProgress]
Unrelated to fucking: Barack Obama stayed in a really nice luxury suite in Vegas. [People]
In actually important news, we weren't just torturing prisoners in Iraq, our soldiers were raping them. [Newser]
Oh, and we're on high alert in South Korea because the North Koreans have threatened to re-start hostilities in the decades-old war. [Washington Post]
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has warned Israel to stop building new settlements, and Israel really doesn't care. [NY Times]
But, hey, Roland Burris is crazy! [LA Times]
And, Michelle Bachmann's starring in her own comic book, so that's way more important. [TalkingPointsMemo]

John McCain: Doing The Same Thing Over And Over And Expecting A Different Result

Megan — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:30:00 EDT

McCain suggested he might suspend his campaign again so that he can really broker a bailout plan to save the country and be a hero... and we all know how well that worked out the last time. [The Nation]
An actuarial company has predicted that McCain has a 25 percent chance of dying in office his second term, which is why Sarah Palin is cracking jokes about Joe Biden's age and asked people whether they want "the new energy, the new face, the new ideas" in the White House in her new interview with Katie Couric. [MSNBC, Politico]
By the way, despite the fact that Republican leaders initially claimed it was Pelosi's partisan speech that caused Republicans to vote against the bailout plan — a stance mocked by no less than Minnesota Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann and Rush Limbaugh — it turns out that it was actually Newt Gingrich's fault! He ginned up opposition to the bill to test the waters for a 2012 Presidential run before releasing a tepid statement of support while the Members he conned voted his will in the floor. Dick. [Huffington Post, Huffington Post, Politico, Huffington Post]
The Republican strategy to win in Ohio — as in Michigan before that — remains to disenfranchise new, poor and minority voters. For real. It's easier than winning based on your candidate or the issues, apparently. [MSNBC, Michigan Messenger]

Palin's former aides admit that she's a little ADD about debate prep but usually pulls it out in the end because she's all charming and shit. [LA Times, Andrew Sullivan]
Palin gave her first newspaper interview — via e-mail, naturally — and managed not to stick her foot in it. Her staff managed to do little more than reiterate talking points in e-mail format, but it's a start. [Mat-Su Frontiersman]
Gwen Ifill broke her ankle this week (Steve Schmidt has nothing to do with it, he swears) but neither rain nor snow nor dark of night will keep her from asking Sarah Palin about foreign policy. [Fishbowl LA]
Bill Clinton plans to suck it up and do a couple of Obama rallies in Florida so people will stop saying he's bitter and not really keen on an Obama presidency. Now if only he can keep the passive-aggressive slights to himself while doing them! [The Guardian]