Comments on: Sotomayor Still Standing After Testimony

Supreme Court Nominee Avoided Taking Clear Stands on Many Issues; New Haven Firefighter Ricci Testifies Against Her

[ubrew12]

Mr-Mann_007 said: "China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated."

Unable to defend themselves? China fought a civil war between 1948 to 1952. As befits a civil war, both sides were armed to the teeth. Dude, your reading of history is bizarre in the extreme. You aren't even trying to be factual. You must think you're FOX news talking to Americans...

[lovegetpeace]

Amigo Joe_NY_15,
Stop complaining now about the taxes you paid years ago when you had no deductions. You have the all the deductions plus credits now and your Effective Tax Rate is 9.1%:

According to the Non-Partisan Congressional Budget Office website http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=10068, the Effective Federal Income Tax Rate for the last tabulated period 2006 was 9.1%.

The Effective Federal Income Tax Rate is what the Average American pays After all Deductions and Credits.

If you include Social Security, Medicare, Gasoline and many other Federal Taxes, the Effective Combine Federal Tax Rate is 20.7%. This is the lowest of all the Industrial and Developed Nations.

In fact, according to the former House Majority leader Dick Anmey, R-Texas, whose conservative group FreedomWorks setup Tea Parties around the country this past April 15, 2009, said to the Washington Post that "...the tax rate right now is at a good level."

We can pay down our $13 Trillions Federal Debt by just raising our Effective Tax Rate to Average.

SO, Americans are the most Lazy, Selfish and Irresponsible Taxpayers of the World.

[bptdude]

Most of these comments are in reference to gun control.
OK, so here is my two cents...

One ...

She has repeatedly in the past stated that she interpreted the second ammendment to mean that the "militia" is the National Guard.

This means the next Supreme court justice believes the purpose of at least one of the Bill of Rights was to make sure the military people in each state, whose arms are owned by the federal U.S. Army, and who are paid by the U.S. Army, have weapons. NOT that the people have weapons in the unlikely case the federal government spirals out of control into a true tyranny.

Any citizen of this nation should understand the Bill of Rights was protections to keep the government in check, by directly empowering the people. NOT to make sure the government was armed against the people.


TWO ...

This candidate for the supreme court, stated that the second ammendment to the constitution was not binding upon the states. It should not matter how she feels about guns, at the level of the Supreme Court, they are not debating isues, and often not even law, but the rules of law itself.

By stating that some of the Bill of Rights apply to the states, and some do not, depending on her opinion, she has opened the door for any other of the ammendments to be also so classified. There is no legal difference between the second ammendment, the right to arms, and the first ammendment, the right of free speech.

She would say she would not personally rule against the first ammendment, because she happens to maybe like that one. That, of course, is completely meaningless. She will have made the rule of law to have the right of free speech only apply to some parts of the country, and not others, depending on local opinion.

She was Summa *** Laude from Princton? Her parents should get their money back!

She show a definite fundamental lack of concept understandng of American constitutional law.

But she will become Supreme Court justice because a female hispanic is a good political choice, and the team sponsoring her has more than enough votes, and will do so no matter what is actually said in the hearings.

The American legal system is failing all the way to the top!

[zonkzilla]

What a headline, "she's still standing!"
Was she in a cage fighting event or something?
I Guess now she will be compared to Rocky?
I could hurl.

[areuforreal]

Touche' sounds rather prolific to me (tic) When is everybody going to the subject at hand,instead of going off subject with any number of irrellevant rants and raves.

[Joe_NY_15]

endurorob, this whole fake story about Buffett is another round shot-off by the Left to further class warfare and envy for those who are successful.....I would like to see the itemized deductions of Buffet vs. Secretary who had no deductions, no dependents and no write-off/losses/expenses, etc.

Years ago, when I had no deductions, I paid a higher %....it's in the tax code......why don't they get it ?? does liberalism block thought ?

[beaumuff]

Masses with the load shes got she won't be standing to long. Obama could atleast of put a good looking women in there and I bet she could have awnsered all the questions instead of babbling about nothing.

[cs4466]

Um, lovegetpeace - I was being sarcastic and making fun of the neocons. ;)

[areuforreal]

why not try to keep this discussion on an adult level, in other words GROW UP.I have yet to read any of your posts that does sound intelligent.Biased statements and racial baiting is not relevant or germain.

[ToolMangler1]

by legacyabq July 16, 2009 12:54 PM EDT
by TheMasses0007 July 16, 2009 11:15 AM EDT
He reminds me of a guy who lucked into office and now is displaced, confused and has a big mouth

LOL gee sounds familiar, eh GWB?? EH?? LOL
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