Birdbrain:

What part of So far the committee hearings themselves have appeared bipartisan had you confused?

If you weren’t so busy being the shadow governor, shadow GOP state party chairman, shadow DOT commissioner, shadow DPS commissioner, shadow OPM secretary and shadow attorney general, maybe you’d catch those oh-so-subtle nuances …

Berns asked why that was relevant.

Downey is done!!!!!!!

“I think this is a huge issue,” Kissel said.

These guys are huge partisan liberals now aren’t they????

http://www.courant.com/news/custom/topnews/hc-downey0822.artaug22,0,7654174.story?coll=hc_tab01_layout

Who is sh*tting all over the process, except for Downey himself??

Perhaps, perhaps. But Rell nominated Downey at the start of July — it was widely reported in the MSM and in the legal trades — and all this “new information” is somehow coming to light just now? Awfully late in the day for some well-intentioned person or persons to feel compelled to act … but very nicely timed for a little political gamesmanship.

I have no stake in Downey. And absent a confession or sloppy fieldcraft it’s unlikely anyone will prove there’s actual malice in all these dramatic disclosures, however suspicious things may (or may not) appear.

But here’s the point: We ought to be concerned, even righteously pissed off, at the possibility that someone is willing to sh*t all over the “process” for the sake of pettiness or ego.

But someone is feeding a steady stream of “dirt” on Downey to the panel, and the media, and it makes you wonder who that might be … and why they’re doing it.

Anyone who actually reads the Downey transcript on Thurmond can see he (1) condemned Thurmond’s bigoted past and (2) spoke as someone with a personal relationship to the senator, not as a fan of his politics.

Lawlor and McDonald – and please note here that Chris Healy was as wrong about this as he could have been – said as much themselves.

Yet the damage was done.

Then there’s the “questions” about his comments concerning immigration status. Even the lawyer for the party in question calls the comments innocuous – an intellectual exercise.

Yet more damage was done.

Come today and the committee is forced to delay action due to “surprise” new issues …

Which brings us to snide posts on CLP about “Nominiations” and even more invective on MLN.

Are we to believe that this “surprise” evidence – which deals with a case from 2002 – was not available before 4 p.m.? Or, to suggest another TV metaphor, is this a little too Perry Mason-esque?

It’s classic political theater. And utterly despicable.

Agreed, absolutely. The objection is to cheap partisan theatrics, not legitimate legislative inquiry. Contrast Williams’s actions with, say, Lawlor’s comments last week concerning Downey: Night and day.[/quote]

so, just so i understand exactly where you are coming from, do you believe that these recent developments with downey are worthy of being examined before voting on his nomination? basically what i am asking is, do you believe this particular inquiry is partisan?

Agreed, absolutely. The objection is to cheap partisan theatrics, not legitimate legislative inquiry. Contrast Williams’s actions with, say, Lawlor’s comments last week concerning Downey: Night and day.

No, they’re not judges. But commissioners, etc. are not unanimously approved – check the votes. And lately all of them have been the recipients of both overt and behind-the-scenes character assassination – especially Hamilton, who nevertheless won overwhelming (but not unanimous) approval.

Donny Boy is still peevish about losing that contest, especially because – in the end – he was humiliated that almost no one would join his crusade against her. Of course, many legislators on both sides of the aisle saw no particular reason to vote against a social worker and attorney who had spent the majority of her career at DCF and had literally “grown up” from being a front-line social worker to a top manager at the agency.

Donny’s never been good about dealing with failure – despite ample practice …

Do you indeed?

Do the names Hamilton, Bowman or Poliner ring any bells?[/quote]

They do. And none of them are judges.

And, in fact, if you want to play that game, most of Rell’s commissioners, etc. get approved unanimously as well.

Yeesh. Agreed.

Do you indeed?

Do the names Hamilton, Bowman or Poliner ring any bells?

Do you have some particular beef with Judge Downey’s appointment? Or is it just – as is the case with Dandy Don and so many of his legislative pals – that it’s a Rell nomination?

Just curious …[/quote]

I don’t really have an opinion. But I know that those who follow the courts do and would want to discuss it here. Sounds like Legislators from both parties have concerns though.

I do think Kissel was right in asking him to stop speaking about himself in the third person though. It creeps me out when people do that. L)

Do you have some particular beef with Judge Downey’s appointment? Or is it just – as is the case with Dandy Don and so many of his legislative pals – that it’s a Rell nomination?

Just curious …[/quote]

Well, I think the above quotes/CT News Junkie bit pretty clearly lay out the beefs with the Downey nomination.

And I would also venture to say that many, many Rell appointed judges pass through the legislature without any objection from “Dandy Don”, et al.

Do you have some particular beef with Judge Downey’s appointment? Or is it just – as is the case with Dandy Don and so many of his legislative pals – that it’s a Rell nomination?

Just curious …[/quote]

I can’t speak for CGG, but I will note that during today’s public hearing, several of Jodi Rell’s nominations testified and were unanimously confirmed and praised by people on both sides of the aisle. If it were an anti-Rell thing, wouldnt people have opposed all of her nominations?

But I think CGG can speak for herself too… I just wanted to point that out

Do you have some particular beef with Judge Downey’s appointment? Or is it just – as is the case with Dandy Don and so many of his legislative pals – that it’s a Rell nomination?

Just curious …