{"id":191533,"date":"2009-08-06T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T20:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/06\/senate-votes-to-confirm-sotomayor\/"},"modified":"2009-08-06T15:27:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T20:27:00","slug":"senate-votes-to-confirm-sotomayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/06\/senate-votes-to-confirm-sotomayor\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Votes to Confirm Sotomayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The vote was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=a2JGe7yuEihc\">68-31<\/a> in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>About the only real surprise here is that Republicans have structured this entire thing in a way seemingly designed to piss off the Hispanic Americans, all for a Justice who really won&#8217;t matter:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She will not be a big change from Souter.<\/li>\n<li>She won&#8217;t serve that long, she is 55, and has a condition, Diabetes, that statistically means that her lifespan will be on the order of 10 years less than that of a similar person.<\/li>\n<li>The Dems had the 60 votes to close off debate pretty much from the start.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not clear why they decided to be assholes about this&#8230;..Maybe Rush really <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">does<\/span> own the &#8216;Phants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vote was 68-31 in the Senate. About the only real surprise here is that Republicans have structured this entire thing in a way seemingly designed to piss off the Hispanic Americans, all for a Justice who really won&#8217;t matter: She will not be a big change from Souter. She won&#8217;t serve that long, she &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,972,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-justice","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}