tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186797.post4817291590127321180..comments2023-12-29T05:24:43.830-06:00Comments on Kay Brooks: 2009-05-15 Morning pixelsKay Brookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06073075957511329333noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186797.post-48135778227933384342009-05-26T15:15:05.474-05:002009-05-26T15:15:05.474-05:00Well let's see if she gets the boxing or kid glove...Well let's see if she gets the boxing or kid glove treatment from Congress and the press. We'll know more then.Kay Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06073075957511329333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186797.post-55120310851771741482009-05-26T14:39:36.563-05:002009-05-26T14:39:36.563-05:00I think your comment about women setting an exampl...I think your comment about women setting an example took a step forward today with the nomination of judge Sotomayor. It's women like these we should see as examples - top of her class at Princeton, Yale law grad, and most federal judicial experience of any incoming Supreme Court nominee. <br /><br />A far cry from Sarah Palin who took 6 years and 6 colleges to struggle through a Bachelors Degree. Pathetic.Ellenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01413739135541829854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186797.post-29283024684784826442009-05-15T16:03:00.000-05:002009-05-15T16:03:00.000-05:00I won't mention the fumblings and unintentional no...I won't mention the fumblings and unintentional non sequiturs of George W. Bush and Sarah Palin. On second thought, maybe I will. But as I've said before and will say again: idiocy and corruption isn't inherent to only one political party.TV Fritzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15155382353747275021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186797.post-4694058140278879862009-05-15T13:08:00.000-05:002009-05-15T13:08:00.000-05:00The real question is, why in the world are our ele...The real question is, why in the world are our elections commissioners treated as political appointees? Obviously, that's the <I>easiest</I> way to fill the position, and I'm sure elected officials love having that extra area of control.<br /><br />But maintaining voter registration files and running elections shouldn't be a partisan business, especially not when both sides love accusing the others of election fraud. (And, of course, when each side presumably believes that the other is committing fraud.)<br /><br />It would make more sense to remove the partisan factor from the equation as much as possible, either by making commissioners' terms significantly longer, mandating an equal, partisan make-up of the commission, or just replacing the appointees with civil servants under state oversight.<br /><br />Also: "civil disobedience" is, by definition, not terrorism. Conflating the two is pretty ridiculous.<br /><br />And as for Nancy Pelosi - I think she, along with a lot of the rest of the House leadership, is pretty awful. She's probably third on my list of Congressional Democrats I don't like, behind Reid and Frank. <br /><br />But all the conservative blogs that are more concerned with her confusing public statements <I>about</I> the torture issue than they are by the issue itself are pretty disgusting. If they don't actually care whether we tortured people, why do they care whether Pelosi knew about it?N.S. Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00594978546540226304noreply@blogger.com