*clink*!

Don't leave us LP!

Also yay!

I'm trying not to get excited. I'm Latina, and while I don't think brown people are any better than anyone else, it gets awful tiring not seeing anyone who looks like me in politics or the media.

However, I was tentatively excited when Alberto Gonzalez was made Attorney General. Hey, look, a Mexican-American hanging in the White House! And then he was all "waterboarding is not torture" and "I'm an insufferable cock" and I felt stupid for ever celebrating on the basis of his skin color.

So, as a wise Latina, I'm happy there are more opportunities out there for other women of Hispanic heritage. It's up to her to not disappoint.

Double Hooray! Viva Sotomayor and viva LT!
(Please don't leave us again, LT, puleeze!)

LT, hope your break does it for you (as a veteran of breaks and self-imposed lurks) sooner than you planned (as a veteran of sooners).

I was pretty confident that the GOP was putting all its fight into health care and would strategically allow this one (since they had few options anyway). Funny, there have been Hispanic Americans at least since the Louisiana Purchase, so it only took 206 years to get one on the Supreme Court.

Yet all the local rag's web commenters think it's something the Democrats are doing to be "trendy".

And there was much rejoicing. So nice to see someone sane getting put on the bench.

Good stuff. Great stuff. Awesome.

Except for the not hearing from you part, LT. I'll miss you.

Please reconsider LT. I really enjoy seeing you here.

I'm happy that it's finally official, but I didn't have any doubt about it, especially after the first republican announced he was voting for her. Lindsay Graham may be a wanker of the highest order, but he did vote for her in committee, and with a good comment.

At work today, CNN was on, and they played alternate comments from Democrat and Republican Senators, and it was basically Democrats: "She's a great judge", and Republicans: "She's a turd". Here's someone who is eminently qualified, has an excellent, and large judicial record, and yet the vote was as close as it was? The comments from the nay Republicans were just plain disgusting, and not based on any reality I heard during the hearings.

I just can't get interested in politics anymore when such partisanship abounds. Anything done by a D, the R's hate, and vice versa. It's black and white in a gray world. It's tiresome.

Congratulations to Justice Sotomayor. I wish her a long and productive term on the Supreme Court.

And then he was all... ..."I'm an insufferable cock."

Would that anyone from that administration would ever have been this direct.

I just can't get interested in politics anymore when such partisanship abounds.

I'm really getting turned off by it too (albeit it in an admittedly partisan way). Obama was supposed to bring us all together. (And by us, I mean Us, not the wags.) But the wags and the politicos are doing their best to ensure that doesn't happen. They're deliberately frothing the punch bowl. I just don't get it. Why not let people be content for a while? Why do they just have to climb up onto the picnic table and lay a huge steaming dump in the bucket of fried chicken when all the picnickers just want sit in the sun and forget the bad stuff and have a nice time for a while? It's so disheartening. (And it's working, which is even more depressing.)