Comments on: So they said http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2009/06/so-they-said-27/ The Wichita Eagle Editorial Department Blog Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:02:50 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5.2 hourly 1 By: Phantom http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2009/06/so-they-said-27/#comment-596324 Phantom Sun, 07 Jun 2009 23:40:34 +0000 http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/?p=14278#comment-596324 I think Roberts jumped out in front of the pack to be the attack dog, only to learn the pack had decided to go in a different direction! I think Roberts jumped out in front of the pack to be the attack dog, only to learn the pack had decided to go in a different direction!

]]> By: lindainks55 http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2009/06/so-they-said-27/#comment-596119 lindainks55 Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:31:54 +0000 http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/?p=14278#comment-596119 Excellent letter in today's Letters to the Editor section of the newspaper. Kansans should demand an answer to this question from Senator Roberts! <i>"Why hold hearing? Imagine you show up for jury duty and state that you "have witnessed the news" and you already have made your decision on how you will vote. Do you think the judge would allow you to be on the jury? Of course not. One needs to hear a case and listen to the facts in order to make an honest judgment. Unfortunately, Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., was the first senator to publicly oppose U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor before the Senate Judiciary Committee formally questions her. He clearly stated that she will not get his vote. We have a senator who has decided there is no need to look at her record or her past cases or to ask her direct questions. So I ask our senator: Why even have these hearings if you already have made up your mind on how you will vote? This is a sad day for me as a Kansan, and I don't think I am alone on this. AARON LANDES Derby"</i> Excellent letter in today’s Letters to the Editor section of the newspaper. Kansans should demand an answer to this question from Senator Roberts!

“Why hold hearing?

Imagine you show up for jury duty and state that you “have witnessed the news” and you already have made your decision on how you will vote. Do you think the judge would allow you to be on the jury? Of course not. One needs to hear a case and listen to the facts in order to make an honest judgment.

Unfortunately, Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., was the first senator to publicly oppose U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor before the Senate Judiciary Committee formally questions her. He clearly stated that she will not get his vote.

We have a senator who has decided there is no need to look at her record or her past cases or to ask her direct questions. So I ask our senator: Why even have these hearings if you already have made up your mind on how you will vote?

This is a sad day for me as a Kansan, and I don’t think I am alone on this.

AARON LANDES
Derby”

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