Crawford: Sotomayor Hearings Political Disaster For GOP
By Big Tent Democrat Wednesday Jul 15, 2009 12:30pmVia Atrios, Craig Crawford describes the political disaster that the GOP has decided to perpetrate upon itself:
Watching Lindsey Graham's gotcha grin as he needled Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor with disingenuous and rhetorical questions you had to wonder what was so funny. Does the Republican senator think it is amusing that he and his party's condescending tone toward the Hispanic woman was costing them ethnic votes with each passing hour of Tuesday's Judiciary Committee hearing?
. . . Even if they vote for her, the fallout for Republicans could reach well beyond Hispanic voters. They are coming across as a bunch of snarky and bitter old white men who cannot bear the thought of their kind losing power.
The only thing that can make it worse for the GOP will be, as I noted earlier, if no Republicans vote for Sotomayor's confirmation. Here's hoping.
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I watched clips of both Sessions and Graham. They were both disgusting.
These two calling anyone a racist is like the pot calling the kettle... Well, you know.
states?
Will our own turdwipe Edsign not resign and, as he stated, run for re-election in 2012?
If so then it would be time to move to Canada, Vancouver BC, to escape this madness!
I am so pissed about Mr. Holyer than thou Edsign, and living in Las Vegas, that I had to change my blood pressure meds.
They don't care what they say cause they're republicans which means that nothing they say or do actually has consequences. If people don't vote for them it's not because they are racist, misogynistic assholes it's because the other candidate used voodoo and the election was rigged by the liberal-biased media which plays them unfairly at every turn even when repeating their lame-ass talking points verbatim despite a little thing we call the truth.
sorry got all riled up there for a second
proverbial grave. For the last two or three years I have become increasingly disgusted with them, but as a Mexican-American woman, watching them go after Sotomayor in this manner just settles it and is the cherry on the shit sundae.
They can't have the shit sundae until they have eaten all of the shit taco.
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They've been disgusting me for a very long time now and this blatant hypocrisy, gender-bias, and racist bigotry will be their swan song... thank frickin' keerist! It's been a long time coming, and I think they've clearly shown themselves for who they REALLY are! A bunch of pompous, tasteless, immoral a$$hats!
was being the true lawyer in the group of racists. True, he took only the nasty comments from a large group of anonymous comments but he made a legal point from a political context!
Sessions is a little man with a small brain that was denied a judgeship because of being a racist. Cornyn was plodding the 'party line' -- with no effect... The rest are just slugs!
Most are toast due to the ineffective leadership displayed in other areas of Governance!
Hope the judge keeps the notes she is taking --will make a great book one day!
The only thing is... can you imagine the residual slobbering knuckledragging crazies that will still vote for them? OMFG! And most of them are tot'n fahr arms! Whoa!
I would simply say "I told you so!" I have been disgusted with WASPS and their wannabees, like O"Reilly and Tancredo since becoming, well, Chicano!
young and a little naive. I first became angry with the GOP when they passed Prop 182. I was thirteen at the time. But as I get older I'm starting to be much from observing of their bullcrap...
Lindsey, Sessions and the rest are trying to show their base that they tried to prevent this "wise Latina" from getting to the Supreme Court but those far left loons outnumbered them. They don't give a damn about the Hispanic community vote, they are trying to hang on to what's left of their own party with both hands.
Couldn't happen to a nicer pack of bastards, I say.
I have a bit of trouble with the word "nicer".
The rest is fine.
There are a lot of more appropriate adjectives, I'd have to agree! ;)
"more deserving"
if no Republicans vote for Sotomayor's confirmation. Here's hoping.
Hope? Nope. Going to be a fact. The whole GOP is totally clueless.
...that either Collins or Snowe--or both--will vote to confirm her. Maybe 1 or 2 others who are growing increasingly concerned that the Repugs have badly mishandled this confirmation process.
Not only that. By attacking someone relatively moderate, like Sotomayor, and obviously qualified, they've not "kept their powder dry" for the potential future time when Obama nominates someone to replace Kennedy or Scalia (who's a fat old smoker).
can one choke on smoking old fat?
Let these racist bastards immolate. And silently stand by with a gasoline can.
Yes, Lindsey did think he was being entertaining. He was trying to be cute as he planned to say, Hey little lady, this is white man country and we don't think you are ready to obey our good old boy rules. A wise Latino would be home cooking and leave the smart stuff to us guys.
...may I try on your sparkly shoes?"
Graham as being 'cute'! He was using all his legal skills to preach to his republican base without being obtuse!
The rest of the slugs are just grandstanding!
Graham tried to trick the Judge into repeating the sentence about wise Latinos by pretending he couldn't find his copy of the quote. He knew people hearing her voice saying the words might make a bigger impact than just his reading the words. The Judge did not take his bait and good for her.
It's like having an accused murderer on the stand and handing them the weapon used in the murder. The visual of that person holding the gun is a strong one for the jury.
he the lawyer playing with her the judge... like taking a pocketknife to a gunfight!
The sick treatment of Sotomayor by the Republicans is likely more meaningful in pissing off woman than Hispanics. The Republicans already lost the Hispanic vote. The are likely pissing off the 50% of the population that are woman, a contiguency that they still get a good share of vote.
Just kidding...there's room at the top for everyone.
GOP. Recent immigrants to this country from Latino countries are more likely to sympathize with the surface of what Repugs profess to be about (family values, the tradition of small entreprenuership, etc.), but they are getting a nasty introduction to how the GOP really feels. It will be so sweet if the new arrivals realize the GOP is their natural enemy and not the friends they claim to be.
I hope it's a wake up call - long overdue too.
... of that loony-tunes Sheriff Blow, er Joe supporter screaming about shooting men/women/children who cross the border illegally.
Because, y'know, it's not like they can tell the difference, or care. I mean, you really think someone whose head is full of that much hate and percolating violence likes ANY immigrants?
If the republicans want to remain relevant they have to stop their core racism otherwise they are getting flushed down the toilet forever as they become the permanent minority.
when we get rid of the Stepford-wife-women, we're a majority (certainly worldwide) and those old white boys will have to reckon with that!
I often wonder... don't they know women feed them and they sleep with women, you've gotta feel pretty safe to do that... (most of 'em attest to this at least)... I wouldn't want to be pissing women off too much, you know...
I could NOT possibly in any way, shape or form be more disgusted with these turds in the collective punch bowl. They are beneath contempt and words fail me. Why ANY female would vote for ANY rethuglican, is beyond me! Rechhh Ptuuuie!
Most people I know who are interested in politics and the SCOTUS are not watching the proceedings live--they're getting their view of it on the evening news or from the blogs/news feeds they read.
The summaries I have seen of the hearings (and I'm talking mostly from teevee news) has been at least somewhat critical of the types of questions Sotomayor has been asked: the news has insinuated she has had to endure attacks based on her sex and ethnicity--which she has.
Hard to tell how that will play in any one community, but this is the news that's being put out there--especially by the "Good Morning Everybody in America" happy infotainment shows on network. The GOP is kicking it's own butt by carrying on its condescending/insulting/insistent attack-dog-gotcha lines of questioning because those who are paying any attention at all are hearing only this side of them. Sort of the way Democrats were portrayed by the news during Alito's confirmation ("making his wife cry" and all that). That's gonna hurt them, I think.
Women's and Hispanic leadership organizations across the country are watching the whole thing, and not missing a single condescending insult - and I bet they are completely unsurprised by what they see. But, oh boy, this will trickle down.
My favorite part may be how they simply don't understand why it is so offensive of them to lump all Hispanics together and expect Sotomayor to represent for them all. As cool as she has been, I've seen a couple of expressions on her face when that has happened that I know will resonate across Latin communities and be totally overlooked by the racists.
Actually, it wasn't a Democrat that made her cry, she started crying during the time that Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham was kissing Alito's ass and characterizing questions from some of the Democrats.
If Sotomayor wants speed things up - all she needs to do is cry and run from the room after one of these assholes beats up on her?
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Better yet, her mother should cry. I've said from the beginning that if her mother began to cry the hearings would be over and she would be confirmed on the spot.
8 years after his Pop lost to Clinton?
always has been, always going to be.
"They are coming across as a bunch of snarky and bitter old white men who cannot bear the thought of their kind losing power."
That's who they are - and they feel so entitled they don't even know they should be covering it up.
Hey, as Oprah says, "When people show you who they are, believe them."
My question isn't how clueless are they? My question is, how much do the have to show us who they truly are before we finally believe what they are showing us?
It's not as if it isn't pretty damn obvious.
We all could only hope that the Reslug party dies and goes away leaving only their tiny base of frustrated racist haters and wing-nut terrorists left.
Doesn't Lindsey have to vote for her now since she didn't have a "meltdown". God knows he tried to melt her but she was made of sterner stuff. I doubt Sessions will vote for her after the the bullshit he said about her.
I wonder if Lindsey would have said to a male Judge that he would be confirmed if he didn't have a meltdown. Probably not, because everyone knows only women become emotional and meltdown. Men just clutch the pearls.
is one brilliant tough cookie, and the reich wing pigs will learn that to their chagrin. You don't get to where she is, as a female and as a Latina, by being a push-over. The end of the rein of pasty faced white men can not come soon enough.
young, twentysomething, multiethnic Latina, I'm the future of this country, and Mr. Goofy Ears and Miss Lindsey will be its sad past...
My nieces and nephews include Asian-Hispanic, Asian-Caucasian, and Asian-African.
I have to say, the future is looking pretty damn good.
It's a wonderful site to see, and I noticed Sotomayor pointed out her mixed nieces and nephews that were there with her, which I thought was cool.
Go forth and kick major butt!!
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