Gandy today described PBO’s pick for the Supreme Court as “very progressive.” The NOW honcho was a guest on this evening’s Ed Show. She was preceded by senior PBO adviser Valerie Jarrett, who danced furiously away from the liberal label. But then came Gandy, who gave the game away.
ED SCHULTZ: Would the White House label her a liberal, a progressive? And would she satisfy the base of the Democratic party.
VALERIE JARRETT: You know, we’re not much on labels as you know from the campaign.
Liberals on the national level never are.
In contrast with Olbermann, who doesn’t allow any dissenting voices on his show, Schultz gets credit for regularly having conservatives guests. Scott Wheeler of the National Republican Trust PAC, who described Sotomayor as being “on the fringe.” When Gandy later came on, Schultz invited her to rebut Wheeler’s remark.
SCHULTZ: Obviously you don’t think she’s a radical. Is she liberal enough for you?
KIM GANDY: I think she’s a very progressive judge.
In the lexicon of the left, “progressive” is somewhere to the port side of “liberal.” So here we have NOW’s Gandy certifying that not merely is Sotomayor progressive, but “very progressive.” Thanks for confirming what we already knew but what Sotomayor’s defenders will deny. Expect to be quoted, Kim.
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Gandy must not have gotten Rahm’s Sotomayer talking points email/memo/fax/phone call.
Maybe her Blackberry’s batteries were kaput.
Sotomayer is supposed to be presented to the dumbMasses as a “moderate.”
-Never mind that she is an anti-constitutional racist/bigot and a judicial activist of the worst kind.
If Sotomayer wants to actually make laws, she should resign her judgeship and run for congress.
-Dave
Mark .. you have to be a SAINT to be able to watch that show. I got a headache within the 22 minute clip.
I just can’t get too exercised over Sotomayer .. what effective difference will she represent v. Souter ? At least we won’t have to hear any more about how a “Republican appointee to SCOTUS” voted with the libs on the court.
“You know, we’re not much on labels as you know from the campaign.”
Except for far-right, hard-right, extreme right, ultra-conservative…..
Don’t forget the religious right-wingers either motherbelt.
One label lost amidst the frenzy over the “first Hispanic” and “third woman” is the fact that Sotomayor will be the sixth member of the Roman Catholic tribe on this Court (the twelfth all time). I recall a Catholic friend once told me of being visited by Christians who attempted to persuade my friend to “convert” to Christianity. Apparently there is a healthy segment of the Evangelical community that does not consider Catholics to be Christian at all. In their eyes, this nomination will leave the Court with but a single “Christian” Justice, that being John Paul Stevens.
One wonders whether Obama is correctly reading the tea leaves with respect to Sotomayor. While she may be a reliable vote on the Court for labor and regulation and criminal rights, her record suggests that she may lean against abortion, and that would be telling in regard to her views on gay rights as well.
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