Surprise Defeat for Obama in Senate Confirmation Vote

[The Minsky Moment]

Mowing down secessionists deserves a medal, not a trial.

What secessionists?
Mowing down rowdy drunks in Boston is genocide, pure and simple.

[Caliga]

Mowing down rowdy drunks the Irish in Boston is genocide, pure and simple.

[The Brain]

Mowing down secessionists deserves a medal, not a trial.

What secessionists?
Mowing down rowdy drunks in Boston is genocide, pure and simple.

Your post is assault!

[CountDeMoney]

Mowing down rowdy drunks the Irish in Boston is genocide, pure and simple.

Crispus Attucks wasn't Irish, putzski.

And Mumia Abu Jamal is a worthless piece of shit.   
But whether or not a lawyer that wrote a brief on his behalf that the courts eventually agreed with anyway was qualified to run the Civil Rights Division should have nothing to do with that.

[Jacob]

But whether or not a lawyer that wrote a brief on his behalf that the courts eventually agreed with anyway was qualified to run the Civil Rights Division should have nothing to do with that.

Yeah, that seems a weird thing to base a rejection on.

I mean, maybe there are other reasons to reject the guy but that seems a bit far fetched.

[Razgovory]

But whether or not a lawyer that wrote a brief on his behalf that the courts eventually agreed with anyway was qualified to run the Civil Rights Division should have nothing to do with that.

Yeah, that seems a weird thing to base a rejection on.

I mean, maybe there are other reasons to reject the guy but that seems a bit far fetched.

The main reason is that we won't bow to the Kenyan socialist monster.

[CountDeMoney]

But whether or not a lawyer that wrote a brief on his behalf that the courts eventually agreed with anyway was qualified to run the Civil Rights Division should have nothing to do with that.

Yeah, that seems a weird thing to base a rejection on.

I mean, maybe there are other reasons to reject the guy but that seems a bit far fetched.

Being an attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund is more than enough of a reason for the "but-we're-not-racist" racist crowd.

[grumbler]

Yeah, that seems a weird thing to base a rejection on.

I mean, maybe there are other reasons to reject the guy but that seems a bit far fetched.

The police unions wanted to flex their muscles, so they attacked the lawyer of a guy they didn't like.  This serves as a warning to the Republicans not to ignore police special interests, and as a warning to lawyers that may consider defense work that the cops won't forget any lawyer who defends someone charged with a crime when that lawyer tries for a political or appointed post.  From the union point of view, this is a big win.

Other unions shouldn't get their hopes up, though.  Police unions have some special powers that a typical union (say, the teachers' union) lacks.