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Sen. Leahy Refuses To Delay Hearings for Liu

By: Aaron Gardner (Diary)  |  April 7th, 2010 at 03:43 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

H/t Ace

First a bit of background. Goodwin Liu is the radical left wing law professor abortionist, whom President Obama nominated to the 9th Circuit Court. Liu is a Social Justice proponent and has also been aligned with La Raza.

All seven Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee requested to delay hearings for Goodwin Liu due to his failure to complete 117 items on his Senate questionnaire.

A reasonable request for reasonable people, I am sure it was met with a reasonable response.

Ah, who am I kidding … we are dealing with Patrick “Leaky” Leahy here. To wit:

“At the time of Professor Liu’s twice-rescheduled hearing, Committee members will have had more than seven weeks to review the nominee’s record, and two weeks to review the materials submitted to the Committee on April 5.”

“I see no reason to further delay this nominee’s opportunity to appear before the Committee and respond to the questions its members may have,” he added, chastising Republicans for refusing to “put political rancor aside.”

Yep. Nothing to see here. Move along now.

Aaron B. Gardner

P.S. I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out that Sen. Leahy has a viable Republican challenger this year. Len Britton … pass it on.

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  • maggieblumenthal

    Nothing ever changes with these RATS and RACCOONS.

    1) Membership with any group like La Raza disqualifies you from consideration for the seat. But try pointing that these nitwits and you’ll get a faceful of spit and a RATSNEST of lies.

    2) The #1, stated and known goal of every RAT is to tear apart the fabric that holds this country together, that makes us who we are. He is ON THE RECORD as saying that health care is a citizen’s right! What else do we need? This RAT wants to tear us apart.

    3) I know this may not be the most “PC” way of looking at the situation, but its becoming clear that the RATS have it as their goal to stack every available seat with people who will speak up for entitlement. The Supreme Court is endangered by this point of view. Justices will be nominated on merit and strict, absolute, unfliniching adherence to the word of law (this RAT is on record as saying that the Constitution should be interpreted with an eye toward our time. RAT talk, plain and simple). Just as people are not entitled to Health Care in this country (or they weren’t before the Maoist takeover of our government), they are not entitled to a seat JUST BECAUSE they claim to represent the interests of a growing number of people in this country. Only adherence to the constitution matters.

    4) Moving forward, we need to UNLOAD on this guy with the FACTS. RAM him and SLAM him with the truth, the facts.
    1) He is with La Raza = Disqualified
    2) He is tearing apart our country,
    3) Entitlement.

    Facts.

    Boom.

  • renny

    Kerry (I wish, altho’ he’s not much of a leader), Reid, Waxman, because as long as Dems. have the majority, they get the chairmanships and perpetuate this nonsense.

    And I hope when Reps. are back in the majority, they stop being “good guys” and confirming judges like Ginsberg getting Orin Hatch’s approval (she was ACLU spawn, votes almost exclusively with the farthest lefty ideas) and the Sen. confirmed her 96-3–and she NEVER answered a question, because Biden–chair at the time–said she didn’t have to answer anything she might have to rule on as a judge.

    That was 1993. This is now.

  • http://truthupfront.blogspot.com jsanzone

    I scratched the surface here: http://www.redstate.com/jsanzone/2010/03/23/goodwin-liu-berkeley-professor-for-scotus/

  • http://stixblog.com Black River Wolf

    even in the Senate. He leaked info to Osama bin Ladin about how we were tracking him. He should be in jail for treason.

  • SIConservative

    I’d like few things more than to see Leahy defeated, but on what do you base the claim that Britton is viable?

  • E Pluribus Unum

    Here is the question. Will terrorist Democrat appeasers like Grahamnesty, McCain, Snowe, Hatch, et al decide to speak for the rights of Americans not to be judged by these left-wing radicals?

    We can stick it in their ear with “41″ and “we won [in Massachusetts]“. They can scream “party of NO” all they want. A good portion of America will say “thank God”.

    I see this as unlikely. But if we don’t shoot for it, it definitely won’t happen.

  • Aaron Gardner

    First, I have spoken with Len on multiple occasions, and he is a good guy.

    Second, he is good at working his message and the crowd.

    Third, he is starting at 33% as a generic candidate with Leahy at 58%. While this might not seem good, it actually isn’t a bad place to start.

    Fourth, I don’t see the movement on the left that I do on the right here in VT right now. People here have been dealing with a Progressive dominated state government for a while now and I think I see the brass begin to dull.

    Fifth, we are in the midst of a wave year for Republicans, I believe in miracles. We have a unified party up here from what I see, and all of them are working to elect Len Britton.

  • http://www.libertytreehugger.com reverelth

    Block the damned nomination. Tell Americans we want judges who uphold the Constitution, not activists. That’s a winning message.

  • SIConservative

    I haven’t seen him in action, so I can’t comment on your first and second points. I’ll assume that they’re accurate.

    I’ll speak to the third and fifth together. We are indeed in a wave year – well, unless we keep finding ways to screw it up (thank you RNC) – as evidenced by Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts. Even there, though, the early polls showed him within about ten points of Coakley and Coakley not cracking 50%. Scott Brown had the national movement behind him and him alone. He could easily raise money without competing with other Republicans, and it was in the midst of the health care debate. It was a perfect storm. Even with the state Party unified, and even assuming that he does as well as a “Generic Republican”, which is no guarantee, 58-33 is a terrible place to start. If he’s viable, he’ll turn in a very strong first quarter, which is doubtful given that he hasn’t yet made his numbers public, and release a poll showing him considerably closer than the 58-33 Rasmussen generic Republican test. Until both of those things happen, he’s still just a warm body. Don’t get me wrong. A warm body isn’t a bad thing, and if Leahy implodes, having somebody there to take advantage is very important.

    As to the fourth point, state and federal races are two different ball games. That’s why Democrats are close in the Texas state legislature and why Republicans have previously won gubernatorial races in the Northeast. Assuming you’re correct about the state government, Republicans could make gains there. That’s one thing, but translating that into success in federal races is a different ball game.

    More power to you if you want to work for him, and I’ll be the first to congratulate you if you slay the giant, but I think it can be dangerous if others spread resources too thinly by, for example, giving money or time to him rather than one of the candidates in a highly competitive race.

  • davesinsanantonio

    this guy thinks all white people owe the rest of the population reparations. Supposedly that, and worse, is in the papers he did not include in the first batch he turned in. So, not only are his ideas deranged, but he is dishonest about them. Just what we need, a dishonest radical judge. No problem in that!

  • davesinsanantonio

    Let’s not wimp out because the road ahead may be hard. Actually, I do not think the road will be all that hard this year. The Demrats are essentially shooting themselves in both feet this year. Their arrogance will do them more damage than we could do to them most years. Let’s run with it.

  • Aaron Gardner

    Starting at 33% is good for a Republican in VT.

    As to the rest of your comment, if you don’t think he can win then don’t support him. That said, I see no benefit in talking down the only Republican challenger to an entrenched incumbent Dem in VT.

    YMMV

  • dudette

    needs to be thrown out. He looks like a sinister Santa Claus. Is ANYONE challenging this traitor??

  • SIConservative

    “Good” is another story. He may do better than Republicans usually do, but that doesn’t mean he’ll win. You also still failed to address the point that he isn’t at 33%. A generic Republican is.

    I’m not attempting to “talk him down”. I just think it’s reasonable strategic discourse to be realistic about which candidates can win and to use resources accordingly. It would be a shame for people who badly want to see Leahy defeated, i.e. most of the readers here, to contribute time and effort to a quixotic cause when both could be put to better use in more competitive races. That said, by all means continue to keep us abreast of your efforts up there. Hopefully Leahy makes some tremendous missteps between now and November to give your boy a shot.

  • Aaron Gardner

    There is a link to Len’s site in the main post above.

  • Aaron Gardner

    Right now it is a primary challenger, but there are rumors that he may go indie in the general A three way race in Vermont would be beneficial to the Republican candidate since it would split the progressive vote and the independent vote.

    Also, since VT is a very small state, while the gap may seem large when looked at in percentage, it really is a matter of only a few votes.

    To take VT in a 2 way race you need ~150,000 votes. With a generic Republican starting at 33% that’s about 90,000 votes right there.

    So to win Britton needs to gain 60,000 votes by Nov.if in a two way race, I don’t think that task is insurmountable in the least. If this turns into a three way race it’s very possible for Britton to win.

    The political season is just beginning here in VT, the real action won’t start until later.

  • SIConservative

    Did they dig up Lenin? How big of a base does the primary challenger have? What are his poll numbers? How much money has he raised? Certainly an indy bid would be helpful, but only if he can garner at least 30-35% of Democrats.

  • Aaron Gardner

    I expect most of this to flesh out over the summer.

    I am telling you people here hibernate for winter and don’t start talking politics until the mid spring early summer.

    Hopefully some more information will come out in the next couple of months. When it does, I will post on it.