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Washington Sketch: What Did Sotomayor Mean by That?
Washington Sketch: What Did Sotomayor Mean by That?
In her years on the bench, Sonia Sotomayor has produced millions of words. Opponents of her Supreme Court nomination are particularly interested in 32 of them:
Charles Krauthammer - A Republican Response to Sonia Sotomayor: Criticize, Then Confirm
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White House Tries to Quell Abortion Rights Supporters' Fears About Sotomayor
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Sonia Sotomayor Is No Leftist Supreme Court Nominee
washingtonpost.com — Republicans would be foolish to fight the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court... because she is the most conservative choice that President Obama could have made. (more) Sonia Sotomayor Is No Leftist Supreme Court Nominee
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"Sotomayor's Sharp Tongue Raises Issue of Temperament"
How Appealing — ... Own Story Highlights Her Mother's." Today's edition of The Washington Post contains articles headlined "Rigorous Questioning Hasn't Fazed Nominee" and "Making History Was but One Factor; Obama Touts Nominee's Credentials, Story." And in commentary, columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. has an op-ed entitled "Obama's Anti-Roberts"; columnist David S. Broder has an op-ed entitled "A Choice for the GOP"; and Dana Milbank has a "Washington Sketch" essay headlined "Latina Woman, Tongue-Tied Man." Friday's edition of The Los Angeles Times will contain ...

The triumph of the Limbaugh-Gingrich axis: E.J. Dionne on Rush, Newt, the media, and how conservative spin skews the news
The Reaction — ... The power of the Limbaugh-Gingrich axis means that Obama is regularly cast as somewhere on the far left end of a truncated political spectrum. He's the guy who nominates a "racist" to the Supreme Court (though Gingrich retreated from the word yesterday), wants to ...

The Triumph of the Limbaugh-Gingrich Axis: E.J. Dionne on Rush, Newt, the Media, and How Conservative Spin Skews the News
The Moderate Voice — ... The power of the Limbaugh-Gingrich axis means that Obama is regularly cast as somewhere on the far left end of a truncated political spectrum. He’s the guy who nominates a “racist” to the Supreme Court (though Gingrich retreated from the word yesterday), wants to ...

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