I am a conservative. I believe in:
Conserving the environment
Conserving a woman’s right to choose
Conserving the quality of life for the middle class
Conserving the rights of all people to live the life they choose with whom they choose in the way they choose
Conserving your right to believe in God and my right to deny god
Conserving my right to pursue a long and healthy life
Conserving the infrastructure that made this nation great.
I believe in paying my taxes, all of them.
I do not believe in loopholes, corporations having the rights of individual humans, congress having more access to health care than the poorest of the poor
Because I am a conservative.
Tea Party “conservatism” is not conservative; it is reactionary and racist.

“Killing Obama and his Jew/Muslim cronies has never been more fun for White Male Liberty Patriots living in their mother’s basement.”

The best term limit for Sotomayor is that she is a fat woman and will hopefully die of heart attack or stroke soon. Maybe she’ll choke to death on a jalapeño popper or a cheese enchilada.

Senate Confirms Sonia Sotomayor to U.S. Supreme Court – Political News – FOXNews.com

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“Empathy for one party is always prejudice against another.”
- Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Alabama

I was struck by this key sentence in Sessions’ opening remarks Monday in the Sonia Sotomayor hearings, especially because he presented it as the essential logic behind their opposition to Sotomayor — their abiding fear that when she sits on the court, she’ll be ruling against every white man who crosses her path.

We know this, according to their logic, because she is Latino — and because she emphasizes her “empathy” for other Latinos, she will be prejudiced against any non-Latinos in her courtroom.

It is, as logic goes, about as obviously faulty as syllogisms get. Normal human empathy is not exclusive — that is, our ability to feel empathy for one party does not necessarily exclude empathy for another party (or moreover, in Sessions’ formulation, necessitate an animus to any other party). Being empathetic typically means the ability to place oneself in another person’s shoes regardless of background. Identifying closely with one group at the exclusion of another typically is the antithesis of empathy.

What Sessions is describing is not empathy but rather the crude tribalism that underscores and animates most racist belief systems, and has done so since time immemorial. It is, essentially, an almost astonishing confession to being racist on Sessions’ part.

And it animates not just Sessions but nearly the whole of movement conservatism and the Republican Party. If you were to poll Republican senators this week and ask them if they agreed with Sessions’ “logic,” I’d wager the numbers would be in the vicinity of 90 percent.

Crooks and Liars

William Gheen, president of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, called Sotomayor a “Hispanic supremacist.”

OneNewsNow via RightWingWatch.org

I’m no racist and I’ve been a good Christian but ‘these people’ are really starting to tick me off!

*facepalm*