The qualification being "a pecker".

I'd suspect the qualification is "not appointed by a Republican." You've gotta do /some/ brand differentiation, after all, so why not do it on a party-line vote?

A third possibility is "speaks only English"

Apparently, Judge Sotomayor does not know how to skin a moose.

Well, it's in the Constitution, if indeed the Constitution has been edited with a purple Sharpie and has 'Sarah rulez!' scrawled in the margin, which it has, so suck on it, libs.

U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas explained to a ballroom of Hispanic small business owners Friday that she would not vote to confirm the country's first Hispanic Supreme Court justice next week out of concern for protecting gun ownership rights.

http://cbs11tv.com/politics/Texas.Sen.Hutchison.2.1110495.html

Let's see, a litmus test for gun rights, but not one for abortion rights.

Okeydokey.

I always wondered how angels talk, kind of nasty and in your face like I imagined.

"skin a moose"
So that's what you kids are calling it these days.

Fishing in a barrel is considered "sport" to Ivy League geeks who are basically Demobots.

Once again, Chazelle shows he is disconnected from reality and slavering for a Donkey Dictatorship.

To you superior Donkeybots who love to pick on your hated Rethugs, you might remember that Sotomayor would be a choice for Bush/Cheney as easily as she is a choice for Obama/Biden.

But hey, never mind that. If a Donkey picks her, she's great, and if a Rethug won't vote for her, she's more than great -- she's a hero, and the Rethug is ... well ... a Rethug.

The cold, detached calculus of the blind partisan is a 2-way street in the Donkey vs Elephant landscape. You denigrators seem to miss the huge irony of your own views being just as repugnant to democracy, honesty, or justice.

I suppose there is some intellect resident in the commenters of ATR, but it seems never used. Easier to go lizard-brain and tribal, I guess.

Long live the Ass.

@Juan: Yeah right, Bernard & co. are blind Donkeybots just like every other person who criticizes the administration damningly on a regular basis. What the fuck? Do you even read this 'blog?

yes, because one would have to be a "demobot" to see some sort of irony in mccain pronouncing someone unqualified for a powerful role in government...

speaking of asses: juan must have his head totally up one of them.

I suppose the hangers-on think their "comedy" is as good as Schwartz's just because they comment here.

They're mistaken.

And Chazelle IS a Demobot. Read his god-danged posts. Oh what's that? You DO read his posts, and you do NOT see he's a Demobot?

You are indeed the blinded partisans!

And crazily, you assume that I'm defending your mortal enemies, the "rethugs."

How interesting, and yet, how sad.

Go back to trolling Holbo and Kotsko's blogs, Juan.