Supreme Court Nominee, sat today to begin the process of grilling that congress does before either accepting or denying a potential candidate.  As we have come to expect the two sides where devided on the candidate, like school children deciding on what color iPod they want.  The Republican sentators who are a little outnumbered (7-12), started exactly where you knew they would…the whole “wise latina woman” comments.  I had always had the image in my head, that to be a politican you needed to be a master tactician.  Instead, I only have come to see that politicans are like the people who can’t play any kind of stratagy game…I think that chutes and latters are to far adavanced stratagy game for these politicans.  Rather than dig in and find something that has been in the media since shortly after her nomination, they take the easy lazy route.  How can I trust a politican who doesn’t even hate this rival enough to dig and find more than that, they’ve gotten lazy.
    There are many stances that the republicans could have focused on, that might have made more of an impact…something like abortion.  There were several anti-abortion activists who were at the event, that attempted to shake Sonia Sotomayor up.  Yet surprising the Republicans didn’t fixate, like a dog on a bone, and go after that.  Atleast that then would have been more of a valid argument then she’s racist.  They tried the “liberal activist judge” card, but like usual that doesn’t surprise many of us.  These same people wouldn’t say sorry, your a religious conservative judge and we can’t have that in our court system.  We all know this to just be the back and forth game that they usually play and not much more…making the viewing of this boring.
    One of the few things that I would be surprised to see the republicans do to try to derail her, is ask her question reguarding her interpretation of the constitution, and would she support legislation that put 20 innoncent people in jail.  Use your own laws that you support to stangle her…because the argument is there.  Study up on some Libertarian blogs and use that to leverage herself and anyone that supports her into the corner, anything other than their current tactics.
    Sonia Sotomayor, in her opening, thanked the senators for their time with her, and how meeting with so many of them, “Our meetings have given me an illuminating tour of the fifty states and invaluable insights into the American people.”  Which leads me to think…is she that nieve.  Does she think that our representative are actually representative of the American people?  Because that’s grounds there to make me worry.  I am nothing like my elected officials…for one I work hard and don’t have alot to show for it yet. I don’t get to sit around pass laws and get paid a decent amount of money for it.  Also another thing that worried me, when she described her judicial style as “fidelity to the law”.  This is not what we should want our Supreme Court Justices to be loyal to….at least I wouldn’t.  Am I the only one who knows that the Supreme Court is suppose to act as a check to the congress?  So being loyal to the law, is a flawed outlook on the process…meaning she’ll obay the law.  Instead something she should be loyal to is liberty and justice…these are what we should expect the Supreme Court to uphold, not the law.  Lower court justices are tied to the law, because they swear to uphold and protect it…but Supreme court should be the opostie…to make sure that liberty and justice run this coutry….not laws.  This is what I think is wrong with this coutry…we’re loyal to laws…and not to freedom…the freedoms, that formed this country.