The Vote for Justice Sotomayor

Yesterday I heard that 28 Senate Republicans were planning to vote against the confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. Today I heard the number was up to thirty. Why are they opposed to Judge Sotomayor, a top legal scholar who has the most Federal Court experience of any nominee in the past 100 years? Mrs. Hoarse told me that the senators might not want to vote against a Hispanic, or a woman, but they were more afraid of voting against the NRA.

I’m OK with that; it reminds me of when Tom DeLay was Whip in the House. Sometimes he would count votes and decide that he had too many Democrats voting for a bill, so they would go back and change the bill until the Democrats would vote against it and he could then use that vote against them in the next election.

I know the NRA has four million members and can spend ten million dollars any election year. I’m willing to concede those votes to the Tories for the foreseeable future and play for the other one-hundred and thirty million American voters. Many of us own guns and love to hunt and shoot, but don’t necessarily believe that Big Brother is coming to pry our guns from our cold dead fingers.

Many of us are more concerned about the thirty-thousand gun deaths in the U.S. every year.