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Lindsey Graham Meets Sotomayor, Tells Her She Sucks

by Jim Newell

2:55 pm June 3, 2009

Waterboarding-lover and generally bad human Lindsey Graham met with Sonia Sotomayor today as she was making her “rounds,” in Congress. While most legislators have simply said afterward that they had a pleasant, interesting conversation with her, Lindsey Graham bragged to reporters about how he told her, “Sonia, you would not believe how much I want [...]

LATER

Jeffrey Rosen Quits The Internet

by Jim Newell

8:09 pm June 1, 2009

The Internet has hurt the important feelings of the important “Joe Lieberman Liberal” New Republic political pamphlet’s important legal scholar Jeffrey Rosen, whose very important 1,000+ word front-page non-blog journalistically reported “The Case Against Sotomayor”-titled news article — which quotes various important anonymous ex-clerks calling Sotomayor dumb and mean and friendless and annoying — has [...]

TODAY IN CAPITOL HILL MAIL

…This Does Not Appear To Be The Work Of A Teabagger

by Jim Newell

12:50 pm May 5, 2009

A Hill staffer sends us this terrifying, confusing fax that just came in. Some Mexican just goin’ nuts. Complete insanity. What the fuck is this? “Borders are the arbitrary” WHAT? WHAT? Oh! The New Republic‘s Jeffrey Rosen tells us that his legal friends heard from their legal friends who heard from Sally who heard from [...]

POSSIBLE LEGISLATORS FROM THE BENCH

Is Frontrunner Mexican Lady Judge A Dumb? Anonymous Sources Think So!

by Jim Newell

2:43 pm May 4, 2009

Barack Obama needs two very arbitrary things from his Supreme Court pick: that the pick be a woman, and Mexican. Maybe even a liberal, although he does not support Litmus Tests. A quick scan of the system shows that a gal named Sonia Sotomayor, judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, [...]