Obstructionist, always. But now Republicans are barmy

[babsbunny]

Beyond shutting off all of Obama's initiatives, the party harbours deniers of everything from climate change to his citizenship

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jul/26/republicans-barack-obama-citizenship

Michael Tomasky


Last Friday, Orrin Hatch, the veteran Republican senator from Utah, announced that he would vote against the confirmation to our supreme court of judge Sonia Sotomayor. Hatch is a devout conservative, and Sotomayor seems pretty liberal, so on the face of it, you might say, so what? Here's what.

Hatch has been in the Senate for 32 years and has never voted against any president's high court nominee. True, most of the nominations in that time have been made by Republican presidents. But even so, Hatch's history means he has voted for two nominees who were obviously liberal, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer. Sotomayor's record does not mark her out as appreciably to their left, and in terms of years of service on the bench, she towers over them. So what's changed?

[Sebastian Doyle]

1. Hatch is a racist to his very core

Comes from being raised to believe that Blacks were descendants of angels who were too lazy to fight Satan.

[imdjh]

3. But.... but.... the prophet had a vision and black people aren't inferior anymore.

I can't remember which First President it was who had that vision. Maybe I could ask some of the black people in the LDS.

[imdjh]

2. Meh, I'm a total Single Payer fanatic... AND I think global warming is bunk.

Which is not the same thing as saying that we shouldn't be environmentally responsible. It does mean that I think Noah Wylie is an idiot for putting his face and name on a load of bullshit designed to do one thing: fundraising.

[Leo The Cleo]

4. He's Looking For "Street Cred."