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To: goldworldnet who wrote (307135)	5/27/2009 10:33:59 AM
From: FJB	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793872

but Republicans should choose their battles carefully. I think they should fight every single thing just to slow the move to socialism. Can't pass cap and trade/health care reform if you are arguing about something else.

To: goldworldnet who wrote (307135)	5/27/2009 10:43:53 AM
From: DMaA	1 Recommendation Respond to of 793872

No. They'll end up fighting NO battles.

To: goldworldnet who wrote (307135)	5/27/2009 11:23:51 AM
From: longnshort	2 Recommendations Respond to of 793872

why ? Dems trash Clarance Thomas and the blacks still vote dem 95% of the time

To: goldworldnet who wrote (307135)	5/27/2009 1:23:56 PM
From: mph	8 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793872

Republicans left the battle a number of years ago. It's time to rejoin, starting with a reasoned and incisive challenge of Justice Sotomayer. I'm not advocating "Borking" her. She will be approved no matter what. But the Repubs have a chance to educate the public on the type of Justice favored by Obama, which in this case is a rather arrogant ideologue with not all that much intellectual prowess. Because of the latter, the chances are she won't have much success in convincing more conservative members of the court to see it her way, so, from that perspective, it's just as well that Obama appointed something of a lightweight.

To: goldworldnet who wrote (307135)	5/27/2009 1:25:44 PM
From: longnshort	2 Recommendations Respond to of 793872

Sotomayor's Radical Legal Group Helped Kill the Estrada Nomination By Matthew Vadum on 5.26.09 @ 5:20PM President Obama's radical new nominee to replace Associate Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, used to serve on the board of LatinoJustice PRLDEF (White House backgrounder), one of the racial grievance groups that helped to sink the judicial nomination of Honduran-born Miguel Estrada in 2003. Along with groups such as the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF), LatinoJustice fought a war of attrition against President George W. Bush's 2001 nomination of conservative Miguel Estrada, a Honduran-born immigrant, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Democrats in the Senate filibustered the nomination and a weary Estrada withdrew from consideration in 2003. Today LatinoJustice PRLDEF, a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofit, hailed the nomination of Sotomayor on the basis of her ethno-cultural heritage. "As the second largest and fastest growing population in America, with a large pool of qualified individuals to choose from, it was wholly appropriate for the president to nominate a Hispanic," the group said in a written statement. (PDF) According to the group's website, it gets some of its funding from George Soros's Open Society Institute. A search of philanthropy databases reveals other significant donors to LatinoJustice to be Carnegie Corporation of New York ($1,025,000 since 2000), Ford Foundation ($2,280,000 since 2001), Rockefeller Foundation ($1,275,000 since 2000), and JPMorganChase Foundation ($70,000 since 2001). Among radical left-wing groups, it has a fairly garden-variety agenda. A captive of identity politics, it pushes for enforced multiculturalism, diversity, bilingual public education, race-based gerrymandering of electoral districts, race-based employment quotas, tenants' rights, and illegal immigrants' rights. LatinoJustice PRLDEF was known as the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund until last year when it filed Articles of Amendment with New York State to change its name. (See pages 35 to 41 of its IRS Form 990 for the group for Tax Year 2007