Judge Sonia Sotomayor will become a Supreme Court Justice. The Democrats have the votes to confirm her with or without the Republican’s support. That may be just fine for the United States. The only way to know for sure will be to look back ten years from now.
As a result of the almost guaranteed confirmation, the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings with the speeches and positioning – let’s call it babbling – by Senators, will amount to little more than a television show.
Unless…
If American voters critically analyze the speeches the senators make, the questions senators pose, and the answers Judge Sotomayor gives, we, the electorate will gain a tremendous understanding of the Level of Bull Shit, LBS, senators and the media are willing and able to shovel at us.
NOTE to all loyal Democrats and loyal Republicans: Shoveling the BS is just as much the specialty of your party as it is the specialty of the other guys.
I encourage everybody to use the blogroll on the right hand side of this page to find news and critiques that are counter to your current views on Sotomayor. Read opposing views with the goal of understanding what the writer has said and why that writer made that statement. Is there validity to that view? Can you accept that view? If not, can you at least respect that view?
Some suggestions:
• Oppose Sotomayor? see the Huffington Post’s How Judge Sotomayor’s Second Language Does Make Her More Qualified…
• Favor Sotomayor? I found this from Byron York, What the Republicans will ask Sonia Sotomayor, courtesy of DougRoss@Journal .
• For a very good discussion from both perspectives see, Best of The Web Today.
Take a look at the principles underlying this blog, at Principles of MYODB. Note particularly principle 9.
9. Those that disagree with your views are not necessarily bad. They might have valid ideas. Listen. You might be able to persuade them to your view but first you have to listen.
Please let me know in the comments below what you learn and from where.
I hope we’ll all learn from these hearings.
