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Well, for all their tuff talk on this racist Puerto Rican separatist who wasn’t even very smart, the Republicans have just rolled over and shown the tyrannical Sonia Sotomayor their little white bellies. After spending two months complaining about nothing but the occasions when she said the two most forbidden words in the English language — “wise Latina” — they have basically admitted that they won’t filibuster her nomination.
Having failed to provoke a “meltdown” or a comical Rosie Perez-style torrent of Spanish invective, GOP senators have run out of options and may just have to let this one through.
Historians of the future will look back at transcripts of these proceedings and ask each other, “Did they really just spend four days asking this woman how she can make impartial decisions if she isn’t white?” Then they will shrug and say, “Well, no wonder human society fell to the Great Roach Invasion of 2011. They were simply too dumb to live.”
GOP won’t filibuster Sotomayor, Republican senator says [CNN]
Whew! Now The Repubs can go on complaining about EVERYTHING FUCKING else, and hating Black folks and Ay-rabs again.
OMG!! You mean she isn’t white?
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
Beware la Cucaracha!!!
They want to save their strength for the next Supreme Court opening, when Barry is sure to nominate Bill Ayers.
Finally! Now they can get back to work on a Michael Jackson resolution of some sort.
I, for one, welcome our new roach overlords
But when they go back to their donors for war chest contributions, they’re gonna have some ’splainin’ to do.
The rich white republicans are going along with Soto for fear that their maids will rise up and switchblade them in their sleep.
“Historians of the future will look back…”
Ouch.
And to think I’ve been getting ready for the Lizard People invasion all this time.
Ah, but the joke is on the Conservatives, as now their maids will be all uppity.
“You’ve said some things that have bugged the hell out of me,” South Carolina GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham told Sotomayor. Lindsey Graham has never not said things that bugged the hell out of me. What’s his point?
/me starts making a roach fursuit
Bite me, Foghorn Leghorn, sack-of-shit, guano faucets!!!
(There, I feel better.)
They would have filibustered, but Sessions is due to return to indentured servitude at Hogwarts for the fall term, and Graham has a date to hike the backside of the Appalachian Trail
Lindsay Graham had already come out against the filibuster because he knew it would take away from the quality time he had already set aside for buttsecks with Jeff Sessions.
Lanny Davis just offered Sotomayor a lifetime appointment as Queen of Honduras if she’d stand aside, and she turned it down. What more can they do?
Considering the bluster from the GOP on the So-So nom, I expected a fierce fight (or what passes for one in DC.) Instead the French Army in 1940 put up a way way way stronger fight than the GOP on this hearing did.
The GOP are the Fried Cheese Eating Surrender Feet Tappers.
Lindsey Graham on Brown v. Board of Education:
“If I had been elected as a senator from South Carolina [in 1955], I would be amazed if I would have had the courage” to support that ruling, he admitted.
Also, he would’ve voted against any judge who supported it. And condemned them as liberal activists. Maybe there’s some stuff he needs to think a little more about.
jasper f. krone: If she was going to say racist things, why didn’t she just say them in Puerto Rican? I’m sure the senate repugs would never locate the secret cracker to Puerto Rican dictionary published by the PRLDF.
Well, we still have to endure Linda Chavez this afternoon. Ugh.
Apparently a wise Latina can make a group of overprivileged white asshats into her bitches. This lays the foundation for future Supreme Court nominee Zach de la Rocha.
Antonin Scalia is rolling over in his grave.
…and you hear them grumble something about David and Goliath as they slink back to C Street.
SayItWithWookies: Oh he’s got cock on the brain and can’t be bothered with anything else.
Yeah, they’re not going to filibuster against the Hispanic chick because it might look like they were picking on her because she was a Hispanic chick and then other Hispanic chicks might not vote for them. Brilliant strategists, those sly fuckers.
Cape Clod: Well, the roaches are claiming that they will cut capital gains taxes in half. And I am intrigue by their “bomb everyone brown” foreign policy.
Yes, how magnanimous of them not to filibuster the qualified brown lady. Especially when there are 60 members of the Democratic Caucus ready to smack down anyone who tries with a cloture vote. But really, they’re doing it out of the goodness of their hearts, because elections matter.
pedestrian rage: The Senate Repubs think the PRLDF is the thing you use to put your car in gear.
Hopey dont play that game: WORD
pedestrian rage: Which is why I’m so disappointed that she didn’t follow ediot’s suggestion from yesterday. Would’ve been golden.
Great. We’re on the road to Azatlan now. Somebody call Lou Dobbs.
or
“They’re takin’ our jeeeeeeerrbbbbbbbssss!!!!1!!!1!”
I don’t care if she’s not white, just so long as she’s male.
TeddyS: Antonin Scalia is quaking in his underoos.
I hope she is the bitch Lindsey thinks she is…
Naked Bunny with a Whip: Screw that. The real peligroso in the future won’t come from la cucaracha, but from la Chupacabra!
I’ve already made my suit.
Let me know if you wanna borrow the pattern.
Well, at last the GOP was able to make their point about how one should only look at things from the perspective of an old white guy.
Yes You Can Own A Piece of History: The Lizard People are still coming - so many roaches to eat.
I’m going to give the Republicans props on this one. When two months of beating up on someone smarter than they are has had the sole result of vastly enhancing their reputation as arrogant, insular, patriarchal, racist drama queens, the decision to back off seems to represent a small but perhaps dimly glowing flicker of self-awareness.
viva Latina sabio
You can imagine how this was supposed to play out: Say the words “wise Latina speech” as many times as possible for two days, establishing that she would clap leg-irons on every white man in sight, and take away their nun-chucks. Then, for the coup de grace they roll out Ricci, in a uniform, to point out that unlike the evil shrew, he has a (white) family, that would have gone hungry, because of the racist gay Mexican, if not for the moderating influence of John Roberts, the Thurgood Marshall of Hard-Working White People.
Hoy estamos todos de Cheech y Chong.
The phrase “Wise Latina” sounds best when delivered a la Elmer Fudd. “You wascally wise Watina…eh eh eh eh eh eh eh eh…”
jasper f. krone: Did she call him McCain’s not so secret bitch?
Don’t be fooled. They’re all still jealous she’s finer than their “wise latina,” KLo.
Its okay to let go and give up.
Just bend over and spread your cheeks.
Thats how Cheney started every meeting.
What a bunch of pussies. They arch their backs and hiss and when someone stands their ground they run away. Hooray for the Bronx La Bomba.
Sussemilch:
1. Lose big in 2008 largely due to Hispanics voting solidly Democratic after being demonized by your party
2. Filibuster the first Hispanic Supreme Court nominee in American history
3. ???
4. Profit!
It’s been said on teh Wonkettes before, and I’ll say it again: Barry plays chess.
Ok, we drop our objections, but she’s got to mudfight Sarah Palin for the job.
madtowngooner: Calling Senate Republicans a bunch of pussies is pretty harsh on the pussycats of the world.
Did anyone catch Dickweed Lindsey Graham lecturing her about race and racism while admitting that it is of the utmost importance that Judges should kowtow to the whims of dickish, racist, and cowardly lawmakers who look at the short term. He said, and I am paraphrasing, that without activist judges Brown V. BOE would not have reversed Plessy v. Ferguson, and that was fine by him back then and now (when he admonish her not the try the same thing with gay marriage). And he goes on lecturing her about racism when he admits that he is one of the nicer racists you will find from the south. Unbelievable.
Hey, by the way, anyone REALLY check her birth certificate? Closely???
If the just go the “Wise Latina” card a few more times perhaps the rest of the Senate will wake up to the danger of confirming SS.
queeraselvis v 2.0: “Lindsay Graham had already come out . . .”
It’s about time.
totoro: Win.
Johnny Zhivago: THATS RITE, WHERES TEH LONG FORMZ BERTH SURTIFIKAT????
finallyhappy: Not on camera. That’s not her style. She probably gave him the Latina Stink-Eye, which means about the same thing.
It is hoped that someday the National Archives will release the outtakes.
HOORAY. Now if the Republicans would just go away…
Meanwhile, the true danger to America — the Catholics will have a filibuster-proof majority on the Supreme Court — goes unnoticed.
Lazy Media: Great, I ditch that religion and now they’re suddenly hot shit?
WadISay: Bravo, kind sir.
Yep. Only one proddy left on SCOTUS, and he’s from Chicago. Who would have thunk it?
Linda Chavez is really weird. From the well, well, well deparrtment: “It is clear from her record that she has drunk deep from the well of identity politics. I know a lot about that well, and I can tell you that it is dark and poisonous.”
Sound like somebody’s been poisoning a well.
Lazy Media: Next thing you know, the Catholics are going to resume work on that tunnel from the White House to the Vatican that Al Smith started 70 years ago.
Lazy Media: BTW, everyone knows the REAL danger to America is from the Masons. How many Masons are on the Supreme Court - how many?? And how many SECRET Masons???
Cape Clod: Our Overlords will be supplying us with roaches? Sweet.
“Having failed to provoke a “meltdown” or a comical Rosie Perez-style torrent of Spanish invective”
Don’t be stoopid and stuff!
trickyrick: “I hope she is the bitch Lindsey thinks she is.”
Hell yeah to that. I pray to God that she’s as difficult and bullish as they make her sound. We have to have someone on the court brave enough to tell the likes of Scalia and Thomas that they are TOTAL dicks all of the time. If they think their utter priggishness is going to continue to go unpunished, hopefully, they’ve got another thing coming.
“Did they really just spend four days asking this woman how she can make impartial decisions if she isn’t white?”
I’m asking myself that question right now, and it’s pissing me off.