“THE TRANSCRIPTS SHOW JUDGE SONIA SOTOMAYOR FREQUENTLY USED WORDS LIKE HABEAS CORPUS AND STARE DECISIS – NEXT THING YA’ KNOW, SHE’LL CLAIM THAT THE GREAT FOUNDATION OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION, THE MAGNA CARTA, WAS WRITTEN IN LATIN.” 

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Colbert on Guns in National Parks, via One Good Move.

How Jack Bauer Can Help Bring Single-Payer Health Care to the United States, by Chad at BuzzFlash.

Lisa Casey with more on the “Parade” of Liars.

Glenn Greenwald at Crooks & Liars on Obama’s Support for the Graham-LIeberman Secrecy Act.

“SENATOR, WHEN AN IMMIGRATION CASE COMES BEFORE ME, I THINK ABOUT MY OWN IMMIGRANT ANCESTORS, AND THE FACT OF HOW DIFFERENT THAT WAS … BECAUSE THEY WERE WHITE.” 

“MAY IT PLEASE THE COURT, I’D RATHER HAVE MY CASE JUDGED BY A WISE-ASS LATIN CARTOON CHARACTER … THAN A SO-CALLED ‘CONSERVATIVE’ WHO ONLY WANTS TO CONSERVE THE CORRUPT CORPORATE POWER STRUCTURE.”

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Meg White at BuzzFlash: MSM and Right Wing Groups Team Up to Profit From Supreme Court Nominee Story

One Good Move with one of Bill Maher’s Best New Rules, including a riff on ”Greed ain’t so good.”

Paunchest Pilate at All  Hat No Cattle.

“I’VE NOT ONLY DRESSED THE PART, BUT I ALWAYS HANG IN THE SOUTH BRONX AT YANKEE STADIUM, WOLFING DOWN THE RICE AND BEAN BURRITOS.”

“IT’S REALLY NO SURPRISE — THE ONLY THING I CAN’T FIGURE OUT IS HOW SHE MANAGED TO GET HER LOWRIDER IN THROUGH THE DOOR OF A FLORIDA CASINO.”

Story at Politico.

“NOW THERE WAS A JUSTICE WHO REALLY BELIEVED IN JUDICIAL RESTRAINT.”

Story at Daily Kos.

And more on the “Sonia-crazed” from Lisa Casey with Republican Membership Drivers, and Madkane on Newt: The Disgraced Former Speaker Speaks.

Beatles Mashups at BartCopE.

Apoliticus on the Top 10 People Who Just Won’t Go Away.

“IT’S CLEAR TO ME THAT JUDGE SOTOMAYER DOES NOT BELONG IN THE BIG SHOW AT THE SUPREME COURTABANA.”

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The Sotomayor Bubble: Much media ado about nothing, by P.M. Carpenter at BuzzFlash.

Recession even hits al Qaeda, at All Hat No Cattle.

Dan Kurtzman with Jay Leno’s Best Political Jokes.

“LET’S JUST SEE IF JUDGE MARIA SOTOMAYOR HAS THE LAW AND ORDER INSTINCTS OF AN OFFICE KRUPKE, WHILE STILL RESPECTING THE SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS OF INNER CITY GANG MEMBERS.” 

“THIS CLEARLY PROVES JUST HOW OUT-OF-THE-MAINSTREAM OBAMA’S PICK REALLY IS; RIGHT-THINKING AMERICANS SIMPLY CAN’T TOLERATE AN HISPANIC HOMEOWNER HAVING THEIR LAWN MAINTAINED BY A BUNCH OF WHITE GUYS.”

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More on the expected right-wing reaction from Lisa Casey.

BuzzFlash Interview of David Neiwert on His book “The Eliminationists” – The Radicalized Right Wing’s Violent Potential.

Madkane’s Ode To The Deceitful Cheneys.

“KEITH, WHILE OBAMA’S NOMINEE RECOGNIZES THE SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHT TO KEEP ARMS, SHE ALSO POINTS OUT THAT THE CONSTITUTION SAYS NOTHING ABOUT THE RIGHT TO KEEP YOUR TRIGGER FINGER.”