Yahoo News: "Progressive conservative" columnist disappointed with Sotomayor pick

[Adir Pykhtin]

I kid you not.
The blog of Yahoo News quotes some columnist of the Dallas Morning News as saying that Sotomayor is no Sandra O'Connor (As if anyone is claiming otherwise):

A few questions for William McKenzie, a progressive conservative columnist for The Dallas Morning News...

...I'm sure most Republicans who look at her, would think she's not the best nominee. But what do they expect? Obama won. I would have liked him to pick another O'Connor. I don't see her at all being a Sandra Day O'Connor and going back and forth and helping the court find the center. Kennedy is the only justice who does that, and that's a shame. I'd like to see more justices who could help us find the center in a center-left era. I don't see Sotomayor being that person, but I may be wrong.

I know what you're thinking:

What the f*@# is a "progressive conservative" and why in the world would we need another centrist in a predominantly conservative court?

And isn't this a blog for Yahoo News?

This must be among the crappiest pieces written in a while.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20090715/pl_ynews/ynews_p...

[lindisfarne]

1. Good oxymoron for English teachers. n/t

[TexasObserver]

2. Being a Progressive at the Dallas Morning News means the person opposes slavery.

[musette_sf]

3. + 1

[Thrill]

4. There is no such thing.

[Old Codger]

5. Yahoo

Is tied to fox, figure it out....

[SeattleGirl]

6. Progressive conservative?

[Odin2005]

7. Oxymoron Alert!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

8. Does it mean he's becoming progressively more conservative?

[tuvor]

9. The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was...

...a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and a centrist stance on social issues.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Conservative_P...

(Brian Mulroney, Reagan's good buddy, was its last prime minister.)

[Adir Pykhtin]

11. That sounds to me like a centrist-centrist-conservative ideology

That party isn't progressive in social or economic issues,

[tuvor]

16. You seemed shocked at the term "progressive conservative".

I was only pointing out that such a term is nothing new.

[DefenseLawyer]

10. She is exactly that candidate

She's at best a moderate. On criminal justice and government/corporate power, she's a conservative.

[charlie]

12. Environmentalism

is usually what gives these knuckleheads the temerity to call themselves "progressive."

Then there are the ones who fancy themselves Bull Moosers, but to a man they seem unaware that Teddy had a hairy eyeball for corporations.

[Dramarama]

13. We need an extreme left judge

To even it out. Geez isn't it all ready packed with conservatives

[merh]

14. progressive conservative? Is that like liberal republican?

[BolivarianHero]

15. rofl...

So was she good enough for you when Poppy appointed her to the federal bench?