Worthless Republicans Cave

Lindsey Graham, who is one of the Senators representing conservative South Carolina, announced today he is joining at least four other Senate GOP colleagues in voting to confirm "Soviet" Sotomayor. This is a craven act twisted to appear courageous. Placating Hispanic interest groups such as la Raza which calls for the return of the Southwest to Mexico, is seen as a brown supremacist organization, and to which Ms. Sotomayor allegedly belonged, is a betrayal of all fair-minded American regardless of origin as Hispanics who are in the mainstream see brown separatist groups as a leftist fringe and a danger to full assimilation and integration into American life. Only a small minority of activists belong to such groups as la Raza or the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund Sotomayor served on and counseled, and in fact, served at times, as Vice President of the so-called civil rights group which was often a platform for anti-US agitation with many members favoring Puerto Rico's independence rather than remaining a US territory or seeking statehood. If Sotomayor's racist statements and membership in groups that advocate extreme positions do not disqualify her in the eyes of these moderate Republicans, is there anyone who Obama would put forward for nomination who these compromisers would oppose? These were Senators who were part of the gang of fourteen compromise with Democrats to preserve filibuster while advancing Republican judicial nominees under the last President Bush rather than using the "nuclear option" that would have given Bush his way. A lot of good that did, as Republicans now can not even muster the numbers to sustain a successful filibuster because of weak as water politicians like Graham and Specter who actually has subsequently switched parties. Now, Republicans who could at least vote against her or abstain from voting, are endorsing Sonia Sotomayor even though her associations and statements cast her far outside the political mainstream. Even though her confirmation is inevitable due to Democrat super-majority numbers, duty demands that Republicans stand against a jurist who will drag the court to the left and be both partisan and activist for years to come. If Republicans continue to roll over for or be rolled by Democrats, America must create a viable down the line conservative party.