By a vote of 68-31, with Sen. Al Franken sitting in as the body’s president, the U.S. Senate confirmed the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court.The vote followed spirited arguments for and against Sotomayor in the final hours of debate, as Republican leaders decried “the empathy standard” they said she would bring to the high court, and top Democrats insisted that Sotomayor was the most qualified Supreme Court nominee in a century.
Minnesota’s two Democratic senators, Franken and Amy Klobuchar, both voted “aye,” with Franken’s “aye” resonating more loudly than those spoken from the floor because he spoke it into the Senate president’s microphone. Eight Republicans joined Senate Democrats in voting for Sotomayor’s confirmation.
Then after calling for any senators who wished to vote or change their minds, Franken announced the final tally, that Sotomayor was confirmed as a Justice and that the president (of the United States) would be immediately notified.
Then Majority Leader Reid made a routine parliamentary move, triggering a roll call by suggesting the absence of a quorum.
That inspired a Franken chuckle, as the Senate floor actually remained packed.














19 Comments »
Comment posted August 6, 2009 @ 3:06 pm
I don’t care what anyone says, “this is the bell tolling for white males”. Sotomayer is not the first bigot towards white males on the Supreme Court however. We had Sandra Day O’Connor, who was the decisive vote to continue affirmative action, quotas, and every other racist device towards whites that the Democrats have dreamed up.
She said it might take another 25 years to reach “equality”, and then it might not even be enough. Hmmm.
Comment posted August 6, 2009 @ 3:30 pm
Excuse me for posting again, but I had to read a certain phrase above several times, because I couldn’t believe my eyes;
“with Senator Al Franken sitting in as the body’s president”
No comment could possibly suffice, to express what I feel.
Comment posted August 6, 2009 @ 3:41 pm
Boy, I just realized that this is probably a far left blog. Well, I guess I’d better update the spyware program and check what happened. No, I’m not totally joking.
Comment posted August 6, 2009 @ 4:08 pm
Bobby, just to confirm it for you, yes, you are paranoid. I don’t just mean your assertion that left wing blogs are out to plant spyware on conservatives, but that you’re threatened by the breaking of the white male monopoly on power. I wish you luck with your personal issues.
Comment posted August 6, 2009 @ 4:21 pm
Eric, what white male monopoly on power? I’ve never seen it, unless you mean rich white males, like the Kennedys and Bush’s. Be clueless Eric, it does make your personal politics nicer.
Comment posted August 6, 2009 @ 4:47 pm
At first I liked her. But as I read more about her I thought she was crazy!
But of course who cares what the American people want or say anymore?
We have lost our country in my opinion. I don’t even feel I live in the United States
anymore. It sucks living here now.
And that is the truth.
Comment posted August 6, 2009 @ 5:11 pm
Jim, she’s crazy like a fox. Never doubt it. D–m it!! I did it again. Spyware check.
Comment posted August 6, 2009 @ 8:39 pm
We lost our country a long time ago. We are just now getting bits and pieces of it back, but I doubt if we’ll get anything more than a token amount.
Bobby, you’re not funny. Go back to your hating freeper friends with Jim.
Comment posted August 7, 2009 @ 12:42 am
Bobby, take look at photos of the supreme court from almost any time in American history. Look at the portraits of the presidents. Look at the Congress from anytime before recent years. Look at photos of corporate CEO’s. Yes, RICH white men, but look at conservatives like you being wistful for it. Never seen it? Try clearing your head and opening your eyes.
Comment posted August 7, 2009 @ 2:51 am
Eric, my head is extremely clear. Let us just say that we view the same landscape through different eyes. Anyone who would deny a person a job that they worked and sweated to pass an exam for, is a racist pure and simple. Especially when they state that the race of the person is involved in their being denied. Are you kidding me!! You cannot convince me that because their may have been racism in the past, by some white people, (this is what you are saying with your examples) that it is now OK to be racist towards todays white people. I doubt that upon reflection, any fair minded person from anywhere would agree with this. Yet that is what you advocate, whether you want to believe it or not. That is Judge Sotomayers position and she has made it clear.
By the way Eric, while we are looking at pictures of the past, we might notice that this whole nation was basically built up by poor white people. They labored in Northern factories during the industrial revolution, with no 40 hour work week, no child labor laws, no protection against the toxic poisons that emanated from those factories, and so on. They and their children, lived little better than slaves. Other poor white people tilled the soil with backbreaking work, and grew old prematurely. Others, yet, built the skyscrapers, and tunnels and bridges and many died doing so. Yes, Eric, those would be among the pictures of the past that we would find. I never talked about the rights and priviledges of rich whites, I talked about the average white person. As I said, we see the same landscape, through different eyes. But that doesn’t mean your view is clearer than mine.
Comment posted August 7, 2009 @ 2:57 am
Working American, I won’t waste my time with the B.S. “hater” charge. You don’t know a damn thing about me, but my views on Sotomayor.
Comment posted August 7, 2009 @ 9:01 am
Bobby -
And there’s so much more we would love to know about you. I suspect you like long walks on the beach at sunset, but which is you favorite Jonas brother? Prefer n’Sync or the Backstreet Boys? Do you tear up at the end of “Old Yellar”? Read Kahil Gibran?
Pretty much everything we needed to know about you is right here: “I don’t care what anyone says, this is the bell tolling for white males”. Sotomayer is not the first bigot towards white males on the Supreme Court however. We had Sandra Day O’Connor, who was the decisive vote to continue affirmative action, quotas, and every other racist device towards whites that the Democrats have dreamed up.”
Bobby – you are a racist, a bigot and a conservative tool.
Now stop bothering the adults and go play with your “action figures”.
Comment posted August 7, 2009 @ 2:02 pm
thomas, don’t waste my time with the stupid liberal trigger words like racist, bigot and so on. We know nothing about you either do we? You could be a closet pervert for all we know. Go to Starbucks and sit around waiting for attention, you’re badly in need of it.
Comment posted August 7, 2009 @ 2:04 pm
P.S. I know my views are correct and just when all of these leftist comrades get their argyle socks and sweaters all knotted up. What a waste,not an independent thougt from one of them yet.
Comment posted August 7, 2009 @ 3:07 pm
P.P.S. Not an independent thought from one of them yet, just the typical leftist personal attacks. Make no mistake about it, people like Eric, thomas, working american, etc. believe totally and completely that racism against white people is just “swell”.
Comment posted August 7, 2009 @ 3:24 pm
gosh Bobby – way to put me in my place – I forgot to mention that you are a obvious misogynist but that is between you and your maker and I hope you can some how work it out. And just so you know, I prefer Caribou Coffee – it’s a Minnesota based company. And tools like yourself are the last people to be complaining about a lack of original thought.
Comment posted August 7, 2009 @ 3:55 pm
Why talk about thought at all Mr.thomas? You were on automatic the moment you decided to answer my post. You weren’t interested in debating my position on Sotomayer, because you knew you’d lose. The women has made race based decisions and that is called racist. Isn’t it? That’s what your’e accusing me of. What page of the liberal playbook did you consult? I swear, you clowns don’t think, most of what you write you can write in your sleep. It’s always the same.
Comment posted August 7, 2009 @ 4:18 pm
Bobby – you are right we should be talking about records – let’s compare her record on the bench to Chief Justice John Roberts. Oh wait, we can’t – he doesn’t have one.
As far as play books go – they all come from ACORN and are designed by Paul Krugman – you should know that – or hasn’t Rush given you that information yet?
Comment posted August 8, 2009 @ 7:30 pm
Well, since you mention him, Paul Krugman just wrote an article berating Americans who diagree with the Democrats health care proposals. What irks people is the need to have this extremely important project done by the end of August. Why? Yet Krugman is supporting the administration that expects Americans to simply rush into this without seeing what’s it involves for them. We don’t need Limbaugh, this is right from the horses mouth, Paul Krugman himself. Even democratic politicians have stated they haven’t read through the new health care proposals. Oh, well, just like with the Sotomayor appointment, who cares about facts.
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