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Supreme Court Nominee Debate Defined by Conservatives

By | 05.18.09 | 6:00 am

With President Obama’s announcement of his first Supreme Court nominee likely to come as early as this week, liberals and conservatives jockeying for position in the confirmation battle have begun to find their roles. So far, it is conservatives who have generally succeeded More…

Michael Steele and the “Crazy Nonsense” of “Empathy”

By | 05.08.09 | 3:03 pm

The attacks keep coming on Obama and his presumptive Supreme Court nominees (such as Sonia Sotomayor, who I wrote about today) who the president expects to be “empathetic,” of all crazy things.

Here’s RNC chairman Michael Steele’s empathic view of the whole “crazy nonsense empathetic” thing, as he put More…

Conservatives Prep Dossiers, Polls for Court Fight

By | 05.07.09 | 9:33 am

Curt Levey sometimes wears a lapel pin with the faces of Justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito and the legend “Thanks, W.” Once in a while he swaps that out for another button, with the same portraits of George W. Bush’s two high court appointments, but a more forward-looking slogan: More…