The Obama administration and Democrats in Congress seem to have the GOP over a barrel.  Judge Sotomayor is a Hispanic women, who according to Sen. Kyl, has had 80% of her decisions overturned by the Supreme Court.  We all worry about judicial activism and with a record of being right in cases 20% of the time shows me that she doesn't keep in line with how the Supreme Court views our nation.  If it the record was reversed and they overturned 20% of her cases, I would say that she's in line with the mainstream though 20% is still high.

The 2010 elections are very important because the supermajority the Dems enjoy could come to an end.  They know, the GOP know it, and the ideologues on both sides know it.  How better to stop the bleeding, than to capture a voting block?  Not too mention it is also a census year and those in control get to gerrymander districts to their liking - both sides do it, but that doesn't make it anymore right.

Hispanics are the fasted growing demographic in the United States.  The Dems are the party of identity politics so any questions the GOP raise about Sotomayor, or if by some outside chance her nomination fails, will be used by special interest groups and the DNC to called the GOP racist, bigoted, etc.  Many of the GOP has merits - her speeches, her membership in La Raza (very leftist, very reverse racist), and her decisions from the bench.  After hearing many of the opening remarks today, I heard many like Sen. Schumer who has a chip on their shoulder about Judge Roberts, but seemed to ignore the gauntlet that Miguel Estrada, a Hispanic, had to go through.  The Dems ended up filibustering the nominee, but the cries of racism, etc. I guess doesn't apply to them. 

So, the GOP is damned if they do because they risk angering a growing block of voters, who mostly vote Democratic and more consistently vote Democratic every election.   They're damned if they don't because Sotomayor will decide cases not by looking at the Constitution, but by looking in a mirror. 

Once this political power play works, then the majority will push through immigration "reform".  The GOP will not be able to block this as well because the precedent has been set of being scared of a voting block.  So the politics of identity trump sound political and economic issues and positions.  The majority already use this power play with the Health Care Reform Bill by pegging anyone opposed to it as cruel to the poor and elitist. 

With Sotomayor nomination, we are supposed to ignore the rule of law, and allow the enforcement of the law to be based on "empathy" and the personal preference of those judging cases.  And I thought judges and legislators were sworn to uphold the Constitution, not change it to their liking.  Silly me.

One last note, is it me or does Lindsay Graham remind you of the televangelist Jimmy Lee Farnsworth from Fletch Lives?  Maybe it's just me...