Rahm Emanuel Blabs The Top 6 Contenders For Obama's First Supreme Court Nomination

One graduated summa cum laude from Princeton one one went to an unaccredited Buy Bull "College"

Emanuel has always built his power by trading on information and cash. I would have thought he'd calm down now that he's in such a high profile job. But good sources claim it was Emanuel who confirmed to the Associated Press that the half dozen finalists Obama is mulling over for his Supreme Court nomination are California Supreme Court Justice Carlos Moreno, Solicitor General Elena Kagan, Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and U.S. Appeals Court judges Sonia Sotomayor and Diane Pamela Wood.

The Intrade prediction market has Sotomayor way out front, followed by Kagan, Wood, Kimberly McLane Wardlaw and Granholm. Sotomayor has been demeaned by the far right and it is really funny, or tragic (take your choice), to see someone who is borderline retarded, Jeff Sessions (R-AL), a graduate of a Buy Bull "college" that lost its accreditation for teaching to much Bull, question the intelligence of a woman who grew up in a working class home in the South Bronx and won scholarships to Princeton (from which she graduated summa cum laude) and Yale Law. If Sotomayor's brilliance is going to be questioned, it probably shouldn't be by someone as contemptuous of the concept of intelligence as Jeff Sessions who was himself rejected by the Judiciary Committee for an Appelate Court judgeship (which is where Sotomayor is coming from).

Meanwhile, Scott Wheeler's far right fringe group, the National Republican Trust PAC-- which is loaded with money and was at least partially responsible for making Specter jump the fence-- is threatening Republican senators that they will go after them if they support President Obama's judicial nominations. The extremist PAC only donated $5,000 to candidates last year-- $1,000 each for right-wingers Michele Bachmann, Marilyn Musgrave, Jim Inhofe, Elizabeth Dole and John Stone-- but they spent $9,384,714 on negative campaign ads (mostly all those crazy Jeremiah Wright spots that inadvertantly helped persuade moderate voters that the GOP is too extremist to be trusted). There are no mainstream Republicans up for re-election to the Senate next year and they hardly had to warn die-hard obstructionists like Tom Coburn, Richard Burr, Jim DeMint and Johnny Isakson to vote against Obama's nominees.