The Whirlpool

Heck, yeah! WTF is up with the White House running away from Kagan's liberalism?

Liberal is a dirty word only to very small minds.

Labels: Kagan, liberal, President Obama, SCOTUS, YouTube

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Sotomayor confirmed: The Party of "NO!" is predictable

The United States Senate voted to confirm Justice Sonia Sotomayor to the United State Supreme Court.

Senator John McCain joined 30 other Republican Senators to vote against the first Hispanic Justice.

NAYs ---31
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bennett (R-UT)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)

Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)
Kyl (R-AZ)
McCain (R-AZ)*
McConnell (R-KY)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Wicker (R-MS)

* Supposedly, this is the first time John McCain has voted against a Supreme Court nominee... for any President.

Labels: John McCain, Republicans, SCOTUS, Sotomayor, U.S. Senate

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Sotomayor gets the nod

As expected, President Obama announced Judge Sonia Sotomayor as his nominee for The Supreme Court vacancy left by the retirement of Justice David Souter.

Judge Sotomayor has an extensive record for Republicans to scour in their "Politics of NO" strategy to block anything done by this President. But, it will be more difficult as Judge Sotomayor was first appointed to the bench by Republican President George H. W. Bush. They will also be loathe to alienate their Hispanic base any more than they have already.

Sonia Sotomayor will be confirmed with only lame objections.

Labels: George H. W. Bush, Obama, Republicans, SCOTUS, Sotomayor

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Obama Nominates Christ. GOP Opposed.

The Republicans will opposed any nominee, of course.

h/t HuffPo

Labels: Humor, Jesus Christ, Obama, Republicans, SCOTUS, YouTube

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Obama Watch

As previously noted in The Whirlpool, Judge Sonia Sotomayor is still on a conviently leaked short list of those under consideration for the upcoming SCOTUS seat.

The leaked list includes 5 women and one Hispanic male. They include Solicitor General Elena Kagan, Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and U.S. Appeals Court judges Sonia Sotomayor and Diane Pamela Wood, as well as California Supreme Court Justice Carlos Moreno.

We'll keep watching the President in this most critical of dances he'll do early in his Presidency.

Labels: Granholm, Napolitano, Obama, SCOTUS, Sotomayor

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Judge Sonia Sotomayor - the next member of SCOTUS?

It appears a wager placed on Judge Sonia Sotomayor as President Obama's pick to fill Justice Souter's upcoming vacancy would be well placed.

Being able to check off the "female" and "minority" box at the same time is a good thing. But, all accounts point towards a very good Judge as well. She has the distinction of being nominated by both George H.W. Bush, a Republican; and William Jefferson Clinton, a Democrat.

On the litmus test that no one is allowed to talk about or ask, she is Pro Choice. We'll keep watching.

Labels: Obama, SCOTUS, Sotomayor

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What's Next for SCOTUS? Gender? Title IX?

Title IX celebrates XXXV years
By DONNA A. LOPIANO-Seattle Post-Intelligencer

It's the 35th anniversary of Title IX, the federal law that ignited opportunities for girls in sports. OK, I remember 1972 pretty well. I could tell you I was barely out of diapers, but the fact of the matter is I was 25.

I was about to begin my career in athletic administration and I remember thinking about girls and women in sports -- how far we've come, how far we have to go -- and never would I have dreamed that:

A coach of a women's team would be paid a $1 million salary -- much less more than one (Pat Summit at the University of Tennessee and Gail Goestenkors of the University of Texas-Austin).

Women would be playing professional soccer and basketball -- much less win World Cups and Olympic gold medals and become household names like Mia Hamm, Julie Foudy, Sue Bird and many more.

A woman would be an astronaut -- much less a nationally ranked tennis player (Sally Ride).

The president of Gatorade would be a woman -- much less an All-American swimmer and softball player at Yale University (Sue Wellington, now retired).

The U.S. secretary of state would have been a competitive ice skater -- much less an accomplished pianist (Condoleezza Rice).

As we enter a society where these imaginations are now reality, we need to create a culture that encourages girls to be strong and active. By the age of 17, a girl will see 250,000 television commercials that portray her as a decorative or sex object.
The times they are a changin.' Thirty five years ago, I could not have imagined a television program like "Dancing With the Stars," much less a female athlete performing on the show and needing knee surgery because of the intensive training for those performances.

But I am learning. I can now imagine a female president of the United States who used to be a respectable field hockey player.

The whole article

With SCOTUS' recent butchering of Brown v. Board of Education on race, can spending on gender be far behind? More spending on women's sports led to the women's great showing in Atlanta in '96 and Brandi Chastain's moment (and ours, of course) in the sun in '99.

Labels: Brandi Chastain, desegregation, SCOTUS, Title IX

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The Whirlpool

Monday, June 07, 2010

Heck, yeah! WTF is up with the White House running away from Kagan's liberalism?

Thursday, August 06, 2009

Sotomayor confirmed: The Party of "NO!" is predictable