Thursday June 11, 2009

It's been raining here off and on for the past 4 days. So the mood is a bit, how can we say, ugh! That's it, UGH!!! I've been perusing the newspapers online since it's been too soggy to venture outside. Actually I was too UGH to go outside.



1. Republicans are claiming foul play because the Democrats have set a date for the commencement of Sotomayer's confirmation hearing. They are saying because of the amount of opionions she's issued it is unfair to hold the hearings so soon. Normally it takes somewhere between 40 to 45 days to get a confirmation hearing, which is not enough time because of her tenure sitting on the bench. Oh, it get's better, apparently the Republicans can only read 6 of her opinions per day, which according to them, would take until January 20, 2011 to get through all 3500 plus cases she's presided over. What's even more interesting is that she was being considered for the nomination 11 years ago, and close scrutiny, by the then Republican led Senate, found her record to be impeccable. Nice ploy guys.


2. New York gets the spotlight this week for dumb politics. Apparently 2 of the Democrats defected to the Republican camp because they didn't like the direction the Senate majority leader was taking the party. It's even better, one of the defectors now becomes the pro-tem leader of the Senate. To stop the vote, the Democrats have locked the Senate chambers and are now engaging in a game of keep away with the keys. What's that saying about the similarities between boys and men?


3. Miami city counsel has unanimously voted to extend insurance rights to the gay partners of city workers. Yes, equality marches on even in a state that is majority homo-phobic. Kudos to them for doing what is right.


4. Sara Palin........The bright star of the Republicans. She's now in a war of words with David Letterman over jokes he made about their 18 year old daughter. Ok, the jokes were a bit jaded and quite frankly not even funny. But she has gone ballistic over them. Obviously her plan of attack was not exactly well thought out. I agree 100% that no joke involving someone's underage daughter would be funny, but he wasn't talking about the younger daughter. He was talking about the 18 year old who obviously didn't know how to say NO. Not to mention, the jokes were directly aimed at the ex-governor of New York and the baseball player (Rodriguez). She completely misses the point of the joke and has a staffer write letters to Letterman, who in return reads them on her show. Point, her feined outrage just becomes more fodder for the joke machine. Smooth.