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Ok, let's take the points one by one. First, if a Republican senator asked this (cough, cough) serious question of the brilliant legal mind, Sonia Sotomayor, the in-the-tank MSM would have accused the Republican of Acts of High White Male Condescension. They would have flooded the airwaves with Serious Charges of Racism. The implication (GASP!) that Little Wise Latina Sonia got her legal training watching television--just like immigrants who watch Sesame Street to learn English--would have kept them in conversation till she retires. But (THANK GOD) Al Franken is not a Republican, so we were spared all the High Moral Outrage and instead treated to a Moment of Levity. A pause in life's battle as we all try to find jobs in the Bamster's ever-shrinking Land of Opportunity. Still, for those of us who have decided--out of a sense of common decency--to scrape our "My Vote Made History" bumper sticker off the family Range Rover or BMW, there was precious little that was actually funny about the episode. If Sotomayor really is the brilliant legal mind we are told (repeatedly) she is, then the question is actually an insult to her intelligence, education, and career. She ought to have responded along the lines of, "Surely you jest, Senator Clown?"
Instead she gave a serious answer. You know it was serious because she wedged in "my mother the nurse and my brother the doctor". The woman is revealed as nothing more than a power whore. All she wants is the seat on the high court and she's willing to do anything for it. Including play the Fool to Al Franken's Idiot. She's a disgrace to her sex, her race and her profession. If you don't believe me, maybe you'll believe a liberal lawyer, Louis Michael Seidman, from the Georgetown University Law Center. He's got loads of gravitas with the right kind of (legally empathetic) people - read David Brooks&EveryoneToTheLeftofHim. Look at what he thought of her testimony from July 14th :
"Speaking only for myself (I guess that's obvious), I was completely disgusted by Judge Sotomayor's testimony today. If she was not perjuring herself, she is intellectually unqualified to be on the Supreme Court. If she was perjuring herself, she is morally unqualified. How could someone who has been on the bench for seventeen years possibly believe that judging in hard cases involves no more than applying the law to the facts? First year law students understand within a month that many areas of the law are open textured and indeterminate—that the legal material frequently (actually, I would say always) must be supplemented by contestable presuppositions, empirical assumptions, and moral judgments. To claim otherwise—to claim that fidelity to uncontested legal principles dictates results—is to claim that whenever Justices disagree among themselves, someone is either a fool or acting in bad faith. What does it say about our legal system that in order to get confirmed Judge Sotomayor must tell the lies that she told today? That judges and justices must live these lies throughout their professional carers? Perhaps Justice Sotomayor should be excused because our official ideology about judging is so degraded that she would sacrifice a position on the Supreme Court if she told the truth. Legal academics who defend what she did today have no such excuse. They should be ashamed of themselves."
Trouble is, whores who willingly go on the game are rarely ashamed. I point out that George W. Bush's SAT scores were not only higher than John Kerry's but also Sonia Sotomayor's. But then, you've probably guessed that by now.
(It is amusing to note that Louis Michael Seidman wants a Supreme Court Justice that believes the Constitution is a living breathing document that evolves over time and I want another strict Constructionist on the High Court. Yet, we both think Sotomayor stinks.)
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