What They Are Saying: 07.14.09
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Questioning Judge Sotomayor: Questioning during the confirmation hearings should not be routine or easy. The senators should bore in on Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s legal views, and she should answer substantively. [New York Times] Targeting Sotomayor: Republicans won’t hurt Sonia Sotomayor, but they may damage their own prospects. [Washington Post] Kept in the dark [Chicago Tribune] Healthy choice for surgeon general: Regina Benjamin has an impressive background as a brilliant, committed family doctor who at times sacrificed her own financial well-being to care for some of the poorest working Americans. [LA Times] Tipping Point in Iran: A weakened regime leaves an opening for the opposition. Is it ready to exploit it? [Washington Post] Chutzpah on Steroids: We’re reaching a new level of chutzpah. The financial industry is fighting against an agency that would protect consumers, while scrambling to raise fees on the taxpayers who came Truth about unsavory allies: New information about a gruesome war crime in Afghanistan raises an ethical question: What to do about misdeeds by American allies? [Boston Globe] Bring on the Bureaucracy: My time in emergency rooms lately is making ’socialized medicine’ look good. [Washington Post] NSA’s cyber overkill: A project to safeguard governmental computers, run by the NSA, is too big a threat to Americans’ privacy. [LA Times] Common sense on needle exchange: It is time, with the House having taken the lead, for President Obama to get out front on the issue of needle exchange and say once and for all that science takes the front seat to ideology. [Boston Globe] ‘Stand with democracy’ [Chicago Tribune] |
