No. Really? John Yoo? You horrible shit?
President Obama’s nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor shows that
empathy has won out over excellence in the White House. Sotomayor has
sterling credentials: Princeton, Yale Law School, former prosecutor,
and federal trial and appellate judge. But credentials do not an
excellent justice make. Justice Souter, whom Sotomayor would replace,
had an equally fine c.v., but turned out to be a weak force on the high
court.
John Yoo is a disgusting human being. He is going to go down as one of the really spectacular shits of American history: the man who tried to make torture legally swell.
When I have some time tomorrow I'll get to why the "wise Latina" line that the Moron Chorus is croaking against her is very silly. Long story short, the idiots made me read the whole speech that line comes from, and now I am a fan of hers.