{"id":4837,"date":"2009-05-26T07:57:58","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T12:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4837"},"modified":"2009-05-26T08:09:15","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T13:09:15","slug":"elections-have-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4837","title":{"rendered":"Elections Have Consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"

And Sotomayor on the bench explains a big, nasty consequence – the SCOTUS equivalent of the “consequences” of hitting a bicyclist in your car while driving recklessly and being introduced to your new roommate in jail, big, lonely Otis…<\/p>\n

…oh, my.\u00a0 That took an ugly turn.\u00a0 Let’s refocus, shall we?<\/p>\n

Sotomayor’s take on judicial activism:<\/p>\n

“Court of appeals is where policy is made…and I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that, courts don’t [makes scare quotes in the air] make law, I know [growd giggles as she regroups].\u00a0 I know, I know, I’m not promoting it, I’m not advocating it, I know…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not really [Mitch makes scare quotes in the air] condemning it, either, are [more scare quotes] we?<\/p>\n

Rove breaks Sotomayor down [video<\/a>].<\/p>\n

UPDATE:\u00a0 Rumor has it that Sotomayor is so <\/em>far to the left on the Second Amendment, Amnesty and other issues that the Administration knows she can’t get confirmed, even with the libs’ headlock on the Senate.\u00a0 Sotomayor is, so the theory goes, a campaign sop to Latinos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And Sotomayor on the bench explains a big, nasty consequence – the SCOTUS equivalent of the “consequences” of hitting a bicyclist in your car while driving recklessly and being introduced to your new roommate in jail, big, lonely Otis… …oh, my.\u00a0 That took an ugly turn.\u00a0 Let’s refocus, shall we? Sotomayor’s take on judicial activism: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}