“My friend Judge Cedarbaum is here,” Sotomayor riposted, to Sessions’s apparent surprise. “We are good friends, and I believe that we both approach judging in the same way, which is looking at the facts of each individual case and applying the law to those facts.”
I haven’t really followed the Sotomayor hearings, but I love Senator Sessions’ “Annie Hall” moment.
As a group, Goldman Sachs bankers have been the country’s top political campaign contributors this year and have given $29.5 million in contributions since 1989, according to the Center.
“They are almost in a class by themselves,” said Sheila Krumholz, the executive director for the Center for Responsive Politics.
Glenn Greenwald has an excellent blow-by-blow recap of the great Goldman Sachs swindle.
“A typical street whore.” “A bunch of ghetto thugs.” “Ghetto street trash.” “Wonder when she will get her first abortion.”
As the Vancouver Sun reports, the sight of Malia Obama (the 11-year-old) in a peace-sign T-shirt is enough to open the racist Republican floodgates. The quotes above are all from leading right-wing political sight Free Republic, which was also kind enough to give a forum to Holocaust Museum murderer James Von Brunn.
God help the Obama girls if they ever discover a taste for tie-dye.
Most intelligence officials interviewed “had difficulty citing specific instances” when the National Security Agency’s wiretapping program contributed to successes against terrorists, the report said.
As the New York Times reports, illegal wiretapping didn’t produce anything of value (beyond casting the U.S. deeper into fear and maybe digging up some political dirt). Prosecutions anytime soon?
In a June 26 letter to Mr. Panetta discussing his testimony, Democrats said that the agency had “misled members” of Congress for eight years about the classified matters, which the letter did not disclose. “This is similar to other deceptions of which we are aware from other recent periods,” said the letter, made public late Wednesday by Representative Rush D. Holt, Democrat of New Jersey, one of the signers.
The CIA lied to Democrats in Congress? Who’d have ever thought?