Gingrich conceded that Sotomayor's rulings have "shown more caution and moderation" than her speeches and writings, but he said the 2001 comments "reveal a betrayal of a fundamental principle of the American system — that everyone is equal before the law."

So, Newt Gingrich. Fucking hypocrite, or truly so oblivious that his head is up his ass?

Can't he be both?

So, I crushed what I hope to be my last pack of cigarettes about half an hour ago, AND I WOULD REALLY LIKE A CIGARETTE RIGHT NOW.

Yeah, that didn't take long. The next week is going to be fun.

Are you trying to go it cold turkey, Sean?

Yep. Wheeeeee!

Fucking hypocrite, or truly so oblivious that his head is up his ass?

Definitely A, except you forgot the evil self-centered SOB part. (I covered his early Congressional campaigns. I was ahead of the curve in hating Newt.)

For the love of god, right wing crazy people! It's one damn sentence, roughly equivalent in context to one of us saying, "I hope a Buffista would make better decisions." There must be a clue somewhere under that rock you crawled out from under. Go back and look for it.

Good luck.

I have no advice to pass on, never having gone through it myself.

I am just so sick of rich privileged white guys prattling on about bias and equality.

Its a rich privileged white guy thing, Dana, you wouldn't understand.

I know. It's so hard being a rich privileged white guy.