Anyone remember Clayton Bigsby, the Black White Supremacist who was blind? He had townsfolk freakin' out because he was talking bad about his own race.
Enter Dick Durbin. If I'm Chief Justice John Roberts or Justice Sam Alito, I've got to be scratching my head at Durbin's comments. Clearly, Durbin was referring to them when he said it wasn't "in their DNA" to understand the plight of minorities.
I give you the name of Janice Rogers Brown, a conservative judge and sharecropper's daughter who happens to be black. She was nominated by George W. Bush to the Washington, D.C. appellate court and was filibustered by Senate Democrats. Among them was Dick Durbin who said this of Brown:
Janice Rogers Brown is one of President Bush's most ideological and extreme judicial nominees.
We MUST conclude that Durbin's DNA consists of such a structure that he CAN understand the plight of minorities and yet a minority who grew up a sharecropper's daughter apparently does not.
This "Thrill up the Leg" thing is starting to get a little contagious. I think everyone would agree that a thrill up one's leg is in the same ballpark as "goosebumps". Well, that's exactly what Sonia Sotomayor gave one Democrat Senator during her hearings yesterday.
In fact, watching Diane Feinstein give Sotomayor an A++++++ conjured up memories of Ralphie's dream sequence in "Christmas Story" when he imagined that his teacher had goosebumps and thrills over his theme on Red Rider BB guns.
If Senate Dems were channeling Chris Matthews, is it possible that Sotomayor was channeling Obama?
This is really disgraceful but like a train wreck, you need to watch it.
I was very critical of Lindsey Graham about a month ago when he said, "To call her (Sotomayor) a racist is out of bounds". He came across as wimpy and then trumped himself when he suggested she should apologize for her "inappropriate" comments about a "wise latina woman" having better judgment than a "white male".
That said, he did well today. You DON'T have to tell me that Senate hearings are shows for constituents and that Graham was probably throwing some red meat to those who took the time to file complaints with his office. He Still did well and his efforts may have far-reaching consequences.
If you watch none of this video, do yourself a favor and watch from 14:45 and don't stop until you've seen three minutes. It is the quintessential rebuke to reverse discrimination and Sotomayor is the rightful target.
NOTE: Did you catch the part of the exchange when Graham attempted to read the "Wise Latina" quote aloud but couldn't find the document containing it and asked Sotomayor if she remembered it. When she said, "yes", he asked her to recite it (because he couldn't locate it). I'd like to give him credit for an attempt to get her to give us the visual image (with live audio) of her repeating those comments but likely just an inadvertent misplacement.
At that point, Sotomayor knew that the video recording of her reciting the infamous quote again (regardless of context) would have been dagger-esque so she sat there with a rather dumb look on her face for a few moments. If Graham would have held out a little longer, he may have either created a very uncomfortable situation for Sotomayor OR gotten her to recite her racist comment for the EIGHTH time.
Before I get to what struck me about today's round of hearings in the Sonia "Ignore my comments, my rulings, and my affiliations" Sotomayor, let's start with the "Wise Latina" woman comments that got her in a bit of trouble today. It's very important to remember that she said these words on six or seven different occasions. To illustrate, here is the quote seven times.
I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.
I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.
I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.
I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.
I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.
I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.
I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.
Yes, on at least six (maybe seven) occasions, nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor uttered those words. Today, she said the words were misunderstood and she shouldn't have used them. They fell "flat" according to Sotomayor.
So we're to believe she DIDN'T think those words fell flat after the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, or sixth time she said them. They fell flat when it was time to SAY they did in order to get confirmed, right Ms. Sotomayor?
Here's a video of her taking questions about her comments from Jeff Sessions (R - Alabama) today.
This time, Chris Matthews' thrill courtesy of Sonia "Don't you DARE call me a racist" Sotomayor. I'm beginning to think that these thrills of his may actually be from bad shoes or too much coffee. In either case, he really should have it checked out. These thrills are starting to become chronic.
Sonia Sotomayor has made racist comments. She's made racist judgments (Firefighter case). For six years, she belonged to a group called "The Race" (La Raza). She served on the Board of the formerly known Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund (now known as Latino Justice PRLDEF), which is at BEST a "RACIAL" group and at worst a racist one.
Something tells me Sotomayor will have a far easier time than Alito did. Yet, her comments, decisions, and affiliations seem to be much closer to being racist than anything Alito said or did.
Until people like Cornyn decide to fight back to level the playing field, Republicans and more importantly, conservatism, will continue to lose ground.
h/t to Michelle Malkin for providing a link to the video of Texas Senator John Cornyn speaking at the Texas Capital on July 4th.
For those familiar with my show, I have been extremely critical of John Cornyn on a few fronts (his voting for TARP and his position on Sonia Sotomayor among them). Voters are so fed up with their politicians not listening to them and they may have walked away mad after John Cornyn was done talking but they weren't mad because he wasn't listening....
Oh, he heard them loud and clear.... Keep watching after the crowd dies down during Cornyn's paying tribute to the military. After he's done doing that and goes on to chastise Washington as almost a non-participatory observer, one protestor yells, "You're the PROBLEM!"
On March 26th, during an interview with Lynn Woolley Cornyn said he voted for TARP because he didn't understand enough about the issue and relied on advisors who told him Hank Paulson was the "smartest man on the planet". Like in the above video where Cornyn points a finger at Washington, D.C. when there were four pointing back at him, during the Woolley interview, he said Paulson "was wrong" without accepting blame himself.
My point then was that Cornyn apparently thought Paulson was smarter than his constituents because he chose to listen to the former as the latter told him overwhelmingly NOT to vote for TARP.
I'd like to ask a question of Mr. Cornyn...
How does it feel knowing that your constituents are smarter than the "smartest man on the planet"?
"An Acorn doesn't fall far from the tree." - Barack Obama
Anyone remember how Obama tried to distance himself from his ties to ACORN despite all of the evidence and history to the contrary, including this picture (h/t to Doug Ross)?
Now the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor continues to rot like an old acorn fallen not far from the tree. The racial group, Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, which had Sotomayor on its Board may also have ties to ACORN.
The AP article focuses more on the fact that 350 pages relative to Sotomayor are being turned over to the Senate panel in charge of the nomination hearing than it does on any possible relationship between PRLDEF and ACORN, which could be far more newsworthy. That said, it does mention the claim.
A GOP Judiciary aide said the material details PRLDEF's opposition to failed conservative high court nominee Robert Bork, and its ties to the community-activist group ACORN.
If ever there were a Supreme Court nominee that should be looked at closely based on racist grounds, it is Sotomayor.
Now we learn that a racial group on whose Board she sat (PRLDEF) may have ties to ACORN, a Community Organizing outfit that is feeling so much heat that it has decided to change its name to Community Organizations International.
hmmmm
Curious that the AP article also seems to report that PRLDEF has changed its name as well - to "Latino Justice PRLDEF".
Formerly known as the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, the group took up a number of causes during that time, including backing bilingual education and abortion rights and opposing the death penalty, which it equated with racism.
I'm sure it's all coincidence and there's nothing to it.
Exactly when are we going to stop being color blind when it comes to identifying racism?
Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has said things, done things, and belonged to groups that should at the very least raise the possibility that she is a racist. First off, let's go to Merriam-Webster for a definition of Racist.
Actually, there are two... 1 : a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race 2 : racial prejudice or discrimination
First Black Attorney General calls us a "Nation of Cowards" in things racial.
Now, let's chronicle incidents which indicate that Sonia Sotomayor just might be a racist.. 1.) Her multiple comments about how a 'wise latina woman' would render better judgments than a white male 2.) Her membership in the National Council on La Raza, an hispanic civil rights organization with some extremely questionable ties to a group (MECHA) that calls for the annexation by Chicanos of a significant portion of the Western United States. 3.) Her affiliation with a group called Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, which among other things, identified capital punishment as racist. As a citizen, you're entitled to that view but as a Supreme Court Justice, I don't think so. 4.) She has identified herself as an "Affirmative Action Baby" 5.) Belonged to a women's only group called Bohemian Grove, which she subsequently quit after her background was put under increased scrutiny. 6.) Now we learn that yet another one of her rulings is overturned by the Supreme Court. She has now had 6 of her rulings in front of the SCOTUS and 4 have been overturned (in baseball she's batting .333 but High Court Justice has a bit of a higher standard). That case just so happened to involve discrimination against white firefighters.
There are some who believe Sotomayor shouldn't be identified as a racist. Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina says that it would be "out of bounds" to call Sotomayor a "racist". Yet, he also wanted her to apologize for comments that point to her being a racist.
Lindsey, if the comments weren't racist, what is she supposed to apologize for?
Texas Senator John Cornyn said he wants to put an end to the vicious cycle of SCOTUS nomination hearings (likely alluding to what happened to Sam Alito in 2006) by taking the high road.
Hey John, it's not going to work until you RINO's start giving these people a dose of their own medicine. Case in point: Robert Bork was the victim of the vicious cycle you refer to. Then your party basically gives Ruth Bader Ginsburg a free pass (some might argue to put an end to that vicious cycle). Then came the Alito hearings. How'd that work out?
Bottom line is that Sotomayor gives us far more indications that SHE is racist than do the white males she claims to have better judgment over.
It is time for the right in this country to stop proving Eric Holder right.
