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Following, the nomination of Judge John G. Roberts to be the next justice on the Supreme Court of the United States, Senator Ken Salazar (D-CO) sent a letter to President Bush expressing his deep regret that President Bush had not nominated a woman to fill the vacancy. He then rethought his position, and amended it as follows:

July 21, 2005

Dear President Bush:

I do not know yet how I will vote on the confirmation of Judge John G. Roberts Jr. I will honor the processes of the Senate in considering his nomination. The fact you have not selected a distinguished woman Hispanic, Black, Native American mixed handicapped lesbian midget is not a reason for disqualification. However, I want to express my disappointment that you have missed an opportunity to help create an America that includes women Hispanic, Black, Native American mixed handicapped lesbian midgets at all levels of our nation’s government.

If your nominee to the United States Supreme Court is confirmed, the face of the United States Supreme Court, with nine justices, will have only one woman, and no Hispanic, Black, Native American mixed handicapped lesbian midgets. And in an America that has struggled over her history to include women, I do not believe this is a healthy portrayal of the kind of America we should be building.

Twenty-four years ago, President Ronald Reagan appointed Sandra Day O’Connor as the first woman justice of the United States Supreme Court. She served in that role with distinction. Justice O’Connor’s appointment created a milestone in history that was the culmination of the work and struggles of men and women over centuries to ensure that women received fair and equal treatment in America. As we all well know, women were not granted even the right to vote in America until the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920. To this date, Hispanic, Black, Native American mixed handicapped lesbian midgets are still underrepresented in the highest levels of the American federal system.

You and I both have two daughters. The profound message we should be giving to them is that their gender creates no limitations for them to live up to their God-given potential. Yet, I fear that with the loss of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor from the United States Supreme Court, we are sending the opposite message.

Respectfully,

Ken Salazar
U.S. Senator

cc: Sen. Arlen Specter
Sen. Patrick Leahy

What in the world was President Bush thinking nominated another angry, white male to the Supreme Court?! Where is bell hooks or Sistah Souljah when you need them!

Claudio

…and I’m not being sarcastic here (I know, you can never tell with me), but Ann Coulter dislikes John Roberts (for SCOTUS, at least).

Finally, lets ponder the fact that Roberts has gone through 50 years on this planet without ever saying anything controversial. That’s just unnatural. By contrast, I held out for three months, tops, before dropping my first rhetorical bombshell, which I think was about Goldwater.

It’s especially unnatural for someone who is smart, and there’s no question but that Roberts is smart. If a smart and accomplished person goes this long without expressing an opinion, they’d better be pursuing the Miss America title.

Apparently, Roberts decided early on that he wanted to be on the Supreme Court and that the way to do that was not to express a personal opinion on anything to anybody ever. It’s as if he is from some space alien sleeper cell. Maybe the space aliens are trying to help us, but I wish we knew that.

If the Senate were in Democrat hands, Roberts would be perfect. But why on earth would Bush waste a nomination on a person who is a complete blank slate when we have a majority in the Senate! We also have a majority in the House, state legislatures, state governorships, and have won five of the last seven presidential elections – seven of the last ten!

We’re the Harlem Globetrotters now – why do we have to play the Washington Generals every week? Conservatism is sweeping the nation, we have a fully functioning alternative media, we’re ticked off and ready to avenge Robert Bork … and Bush nominates a Rorschach blot.

Ouch. Well, I do believe there is some merit to the relative lack of controversy surrounding Judge Roberts. But that’s just because I’m a drama queen (I think that line is gonna force the good folks over at Daily Kos to launch an “investigation” into whether I might possibly be gay).

Claudio

UPDATE: It would seem as if there are more than a few conservatives that aren’t exactly thrilled about Judge Roberts. For example, National Review’s Ramesh Ponnuru is not happy. Weekly Standard’s Fred Barnes isn’t ecstatic, either.

Who the heck do these Sudanese thugs-aka-government-officials think they are?

“Diplomacy 101 says you don’t rough your guests up,” Rice senior adviser Jim Wilkinson had said earlier as he and reporters traveling with Rice faced off with guards at the ultra-high-security residence of Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir.

El-Bashir’s guards elbowed Americans and tried to rip a tape away from a U.S. reporter. At another point, Rice’s interpreter and some other aides accompanying her were blocked at a gate. Ambassador Khidair Haroun Ahmed, head of the Sudanese mission in Washington, attempted to smooth over the situation. “Please accept our apologies,” he told reporters and Rice aides. “This is not our policy.”

But there was yet another scuffle with security shortly after he apologized when a U.S. television reporter tried to ask el-Bashir a question about his involement with alleged atrocities. Guards grabbed the diminutive reporter and muscled her toward the rear of the room as State Department officials shouted at the guards to leave her alone. [Emphasis mine].

And then they wonder why we won’t lift our sanctions against them and don’t believe that they aren’t involved in the genocide in Darfur. I’ve been following this for over a year now, and it is about time that the international community steps up and shuts this murderous operation down.

Claudio