Hey, YOU’RE a Republican governor! Do you know this Sandoval guy?
Here are three topics that on another day would have made separate posts, but I’ve been on the road all day until now…
- Obama Vets GOP Nevada Governor for Supreme Court — OK, first, he’s Republican. Second, the Senate confirmed him unanimously for a federal judgeship in 2005. No, neither of those should guarantee him confirmation for the high court. But it would make refusing to consider him an outrage. So, if he goes with this guy, smooth move by POTUS, and one that would deposit a lot of egg on the faces of senators who have refused to consider his nominee — including our own Lindsey Graham.
- Trump totally creamed Rubio and Cruz in Nevada caucuses — As in, he got more support than both of them combined. Yeah, it’s just Nevada, and yes, it’s just a caucus, not a real vote. But coverage of this is taking on decidedly apocalyptic tones. People — normal people, admitted to polite society — are starting to say that He Who Must Not Be Named could actually become the nominee of the party of Lincoln.
- Steve Benjamin appears in new Hillary Clinton ad — No, this isn’t as significant as the other two, but an interesting little by-the-way thing. I have a question, though: Why is the mayor writing a letter about Hillary to his kids? Don’t they live in the same house with him? I mean, I don’t even write actual pen-and-paper, 19th-century-style letters to my daughter in Thailand. We communicate instantly via Facebook…
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3. Because letter writing is something which resonates with the average Clinton voter. Which is pretty telling, no? She is all about the older vote.
Political ads can be stupid, pandering and/or wrong-headed, but they are without almost exception never uncalculating.
No kidding. I was listening to a few “black radio stations” today while working/driving in South Carolina and North Carolina.
The ads directed at black voters on those stations by Hillary are shameful. Her entire focus is it’s “us versus white people.”
I think Trump will be the GOP nominee, and I think a brawley, tough, brilliant yet compassionate New York Bernie is perfectly suited to take him DOWN.
I hope the Mayor’s endorsement produces the same outcome as his most recent election endorsements did!
Hillary has no chance winning South Carolina.
Considering Mayor Benjamin has a history of being in a hotel with hookers on one of his business trips, writing letters to his family is likely something he has had to do.
Such a “classy” guy.
Sandoval is interesting. He’s pro-choice and chose to expand Medicaid under Obamacare. He’s about as centrist as you’re going to find in a Republican Governor. He was Attorney General for a few years and also had four years as a federal judge. He was only a federal judge for four years because he decided that he wanted to run for governor of Nevada instead of being a federal judge.
Huh.
What do we all think of someone who is nominated and then confirmed for a federal judgeship (a lifetime post, by the way) and then quits after four years?
Sounds to me like he’s not really that into being a judge.
Well, it looks like he really DIDN’T want to be a judge:
GOP’s Sandoval Withdraws From High-Court Consideration
Enough with the Supreme Court! Let’s talk about the really important nomination President Obama has made–Dr. Carla H. Hayden for Librarian of Congress. 🙂 She’s the first African-American and first woman to be nominated for the post. Dr. Hayden would also be the first professional librarian to hold the position since 1974 and only the second professional librarian overall. She is currently the CEO of the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore. More can be found here: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/02/24/468010750/obama-nominates-carla-hayden-to-lead-library-of-congress.
I like that she’d be “the first professional librarian to hold the position since 1974.” That’s way more meaningful than any sort of demographic association…
More political appointments should go to actual professionals…
I just tried to go look this up, but unfortunately there were no versions of the book with previews on Google Books…
I recall, from when I read it back in 1970, that there was a passage in The Autobiography of Malcolm X in which he tells of encountering a young black woman sitting behind a desk in some official capacity, and he reflects on her as another example of a “first,” and he expresses his weariness of reading about such “firsts” in newspapers. (I forget why he was tired of them — possibly because he thought it ridiculous to celebrate such crumbs being handed out by The Man, or something.) This was in either the ’40s or ’50s.
I wonder what he’d think about us still making a big deal of such things in the next century.
Of course, it’s been so long, and I can’t find it to back up my memory now, that I could be misremembering it.
The library profession historically skewed female–in 2009 female librarians made up 83% of the total number of librarians in the US. So being the first woman to be nominated for the position _is_ a big deal.
That’s odd that it hadn’t happened before. In a country in which we’ve had three female secretaries of State, it’s sort of quirky there hasn’t been a woman as head librarian…
Men are better at losing things and misplacing records. Not to be anti-government or anything, but politicians prefer stuff to get lost in the Library of Congress…at least for four or five decades. Maybe a century or two…
You’re thinking of the National Archives ….
(Full disclosure: I’m an archivist 🙂 )
“Men are better at losing things and misplacing records.”
I never thought of that as an asset before. Turns out I have a talent after all…