The choice of Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions as the point man in the Republican charge against Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has just added more garbage to the roiling, boiling GOP cesspool. Know what that stink is? In 1986, President Ronald Reagan nominated Jeff Sessions to the federal bench and he became just the second man in 50 years to fail to be recommended for confirmation. Why?
Well, it has been described as “racial insensitivity,” which is just a nice combination of words for “bigotry.” Senator Sessions called both the NAACP and the ACLU “un-American” and “Communist-inspired.” Still others have heard him voice his admiration for the Ku Klux Klan. And here he is today spreading his particular brand of racism around during the Sotomayor hearings. He hasn’t even bothered to try to cover up his racism, and the GOP is doing nothing to quiet him down. What should we infer from that?
Sessions has suggested that Sotomayor pretend to be a white Catholic male while answering his questions. He also asked Sotomayor if she thought that “Latino women were more qualified to be hairdressers or house keepers?” This is a direct quotation here, people. We’re not making this up. Yesterday, someone asked me how the GOP can possibly let this guy say what he is saying. What do you think? I think it’s because it’s exactly the prevailing attitude within the existing GOP. They are bigots and hypocrites. He’s just the standard bearer.
Here are some links to the videos of the first few days of hearings on Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#31897838