President Obama's Supreme Court nominee Judge Sotomayor will be seated on the high court. Republicans will not be able to stop her because most assuredly they will not get filibuster support and of course the Dems can easily count on Snow and Collins to confirm . I believe she deserves and up or down vote, that is what is meant by advice and consent. I do believe Republicans can score some political points at the same time they do the right thing. New Haven Fire , New Haven Fire , New Haven Fire. Did I make myself clear? Racial Discrimination is when you discriminate on race, end of story. Trot the hard working, blue collar salt of the earth fire fighters out to the American public particularly after Judge Sotomayor is overturned by the very court she is looking to sit on and right before her confirmation. I love when a 'Vast Right Wing Conspiracy' comes together. These guys studied for a promotional exam to Lieutenant and there Hispanic and black brethren did not, or did not study enough or are just not capable of being ranking FD Officers. In any case these white Americans had the door slammed in their face because of the color of their skin and the City Fathers as well as Judge Sotomyer thinks that is OK, evidenced by her summary dismissal of their suit. Dismissed without as much as a presentation of inquire or oral arguments. She and her ilk do not want a 'Affirmative Action' discrimination suit on the high court because the Michigan case did enough damage to Liberal discrimination. Oh yes, and there is the Latina woman white man comment.

Obama and the War on Terror

President Obama ran for office on a platform that at it's most simplest form told the voters, that George Bush's methods that have prevented a terror attack on US soil for seven years, were to harsh and illegal, and in Obama's words "in fact have made us less safe". Now that he is now the Commander in Chief, Mr Obama has set out on a course of dismantling the tools that the previous Bush Administration relied on and has taken a less strident tone toward protecting America in the post 9-11 world claiming that his way will better insure our safety and security. There is really nothing the opposition to this method can do but wait out Mr Obama. If we do get hit after he decided to demonize Bush for being to stalwart in American defense and Obama the institutes a procedure of closing Gitmo, not wire tapping without a warrant in any circumstance, failing to track terror funding, and a blanket objective of trying all terror suspects in criminal court, what is his fall back position if we get hit. What does a man who ran around talking about how we are 'less safe' because of the actions of his successful predecessor say when one terrorist does get through after he instituted less protective policies.