Former jazz musician Charles “Icarus” Johnson comes out swinging in his defense of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. He goes after Rush Limbaugh in his latest post because Rush wants Sotomayor to fail. I am not a Rush Limbaugh fan, but I agree with his sentiment when it comes to wanting Obama and Sotomayor to fail.
Limbaugh Stuck on Fail
Politics | Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:54:02 pm PDT
Because it was so successful last time around, Rush Limbaugh’s doubling down on that “failure” meme that has won him so much praise, and converted so many fence-sitters to the conservative cause. (Not.)
Now he wants Sonia Sotomayor to fail too.
“Do I want her to fail? Yeah. Do I want her to fail to get on the court? Yes. She’d be a disaster on the court,” he said. “Do I still want to Obama to fail as president? Yeah. … He’s going to fail anyway, but the sooner the better here so that as little damage can be done to the country.”
I don’t really understand why Rush Limbaugh and social conservatives like Mike Huckabee are so opposed to Sotomayor; you’d think they would be pleased by rulings like this:
Abortion
In Center for Reproductive Law and Policy v. Bush, Sotomayor upheld the Bush administration’s implementation of the Mexico City Policy which requires foreign organizations receiving U.S. funds to “neither perform nor actively promote abortion as a method of family planning in other nations”. Sotomayor held that the policy did not constitute a violation of equal protection, as the government “is free to favor the anti-abortion position over the pro-choice position, and can do so with public funds”.
So now the rules are that the Right can’t attack a SC nominee that they don’t agree with. Icarus is part of the Progressive attack machine.
Charles Icarus even defends Obama. He lies by stating Obama never did negative campaigning.
61 Charles 5/27/09 2:09:58 pm reply quote re: #52SpartanWoman
Certainly helped the dems when they criticized Bush non-stop, pronounced the war a failure, and talked down the economy (while busily passing legislation to make it worse CRA). They swept to victory. Not exactly a disaster for them was it?
Barack Obama ran on a platform of sheer positive messages. Not once did he wish for the other side to fail. You’re just wrong to claim that negativity is winning strategy. One of the big reasons why Obama won was because he did NOT go negative — ever.
Obama was positive? All he did was attack the Republicans without mercy. Clearly Icarus supports Maobama and keeps exposing his Progressive ideology. Charles Johnson is a Leftist hack.
Update: Charles gets taken to task for his claim that Obama never went negative.
135 Kenneth 5/27/09 2:23:53 pm reply quote I don’t know Charles, maybe I watched a different election than you did…
Will Kenneth be banned for exposing Charles as a liar?
Update 2: Ace of Spades also exposes Charles’ hypocrisy on this subject.
Tags: Sonia Sotomayor, supreme court
