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Hmm, it seems like Lindsey Graham is pretty gay for Sonia Sotomayor, but he just doesn’t know how to say it! So strange, this questioning of Bush’s own failed Affirmative Action hire, Linda Chavez. She tries to run with the standard argument that okay, maybe SOMETIMES the Republicans may look at race as a factor in appointments, like with Alberto Gonzales or… Linda Chavez… but IT IS THE DEMOCRATS WHO PICK SOLELY ON RACE while ignoring such glaring red flags as stupidity and casual Nazism. But then Lindsey lays it all out and just says, okay, shut up time for Linda Chavez, we are all affirmative action whores with these appointments, enough with this. Thanks a lot, “Grahamnesty.” [YouTube, Washington Independent]
Wha? Yes he’s very tired. A 30- or 40- year nap should fix him up.
Republicans really aren’t just the party of short white guys. They’re the party of short, balding, rich, closted gay white guys.
one thing i’ve learned in my 27 years as a brown person is that everything i’ve ever received was because of affirmative action.
college acceptance - affirmative action
fancy job - affirmative action
that lapdance from the namibian at crazy cats - affirmative action
that mugging from two mexican kids - the list goes on
I know one thing: the GOP doesn’t pick people on the basis of competence.
ManchuCandidate:
I have a feeling “dick size” is at the top of the criteria, however.
So Graham is essentially saying Democrats pick people of different races and genders and ethnicities because they believe that will lead to a diversity of opinions, whereas Republicans do it because they need shields against accusations of racism?
That’s…honest.
Could it be that he’s ready to come out as a … democrat?
The clip becomes much more entertaining if you imagine Lindsey Cracker singing this little ditty in his head every time Linda “Dirty” Chavez opens her mouth:
You take the Spics, you take the Blacks,
You take Homos and there you have,
The Hacks of Life, the Hacks of Life!
The Republican criteria is, “Are they rich enough?”
Lindsey Graham is in the tank for Obama. Also.
He’s really into her thoughts on abortion. I think she should get into his thoughts on racism. Then they can go at it by candlelight calling each other “bad bigot” and “bad baby killer”, in a dominatrix extravaganza.
Oooh whips and chains give me goosebumps!
The Republican party is in favor of diversity; they look for candidates who take a wide stance on the issues.
Tommmcatt: Remember, you brought this on yourself: http://www.poormojo.org/pmjadaily/images/hung_cheney.jpg
Isn’t the title of this redundant?
Lindsey Graham: Have you ever know a Republican political leader to actively try to seek putting a minority in a position of responsibility to help the Party?
NoWireHangers: Why, yes, I believe YOUR STUPID BOYFRIEND WALNUTS! MCCAIN PICKED SARAH PALIN–A KNOWN MORAN–FOR VICE PRESIDENT IN AN ATTEMPT TO SAVE YOUR STUPID REPUBLICAN PARTY FROM UNAVOIDABLE EPIC FAILURE. There are also many other examples including, most recently, Michael Steele and Bobby Jindal’s shitacular rebuttal to the State of the Union.
Lindsey Graham reeeeeeaaaaaaally sucks. Like really.
I thought Lindsey Graham was essentially saying, yes we do sometimes pick people because of their race. 0:44 - not only does he say the Republican party seeks out minorities, but he says it isn’t a bad thing, either.
I just can’t get over how clumsily Republicans discuss minority identities:
“…actively seek putting a minority in a position of responsibility?”
lolz. He should have gone on, “like, for example, a black, gay, a jew, a handicapped, an autistic.”
I just love how regardless of their age or stature, they talk like my great-grandma.
Oh I forgot to add, why is Laura Bush involved in Sotomayor’s confirmation hearing?
“She’s given speeches that bug the hell out of me.” Oh, some Southern Gentleman you are, Ms. Pottymouth.
Chavez is so careful to avoid favoring a fellow Latina (”identity politics”), that she shafted her undocumented Mexican maid on pay, except for some “pocket money.”
Giving voice to the perspective of latinos in law and policy, not cool. Exploiting the labor of latino immigrants you want to keep out, with a giant razor-wired fence, well that’s A-OK. That’s GOP identity politics.
Linda Chavez is just like Clarence Thomas. They were both happy to ride the affirmative action wagon as far as it could take them, and THEN they decided that wagon is a terribly bad thing so let’s smash it all up.
Why the hell did Bush appoint Cesar Chavez’s sister to his cabinet?
Maybe some one should sit down with Graham and explain to him that sometimes he speaks in ways that could be uncharitably misunderstood as being very rancidly and smugly cynical. For his own benefit. I am sure he would appreciate it.
totoro: Did you catch the exchange in the morning session where Graham grilled Sotomayor on the meaning of identity politics? This is from memory, but in no way embellished:
G: “Are you familiar with the phrase: i d e n t i t y p o l i t i c s?” (said as if speaking to a retarded 3-year old)
S: “Yes, sir.”
G: “O.K. Can you tell us the definition of ‘identity politics’?”
S: “Excuse..”
G: (interrupting) “You’re saying it’s about making excuses? Well…”
S: “Ay dios mio! I will fucking shank your maricón cracker culo with the spine of my legal pad if you say another fucking word, you motherfucking, shit eating puta!”
I may have garbled the last line or two, but you get the idea.
Pizzuti: They talk like my grandma when they talk about race, i.e., the more they try to explain to people why they aren’t racist, the more racist they sound. My grandma would always say stuff like “Oh heavens, I didn’t avoid that Oriental man on the bus because I’m racist! Heavens no, I am not racist. I just did not sit next to him because I don’t trust the Japs.” And so on.
They’ll give some land to the niggers and the chinks, but they DON’T WANT THE IRISH!
Pizzuti: You have a great-grandmother, extant? What are you, six-years-old? (and quite a prodigy, I might add.) I haven’t known someone with a great-grandma in 13 years, and that was my 5-year-old nephew right before my grandma died. I probably need to meet more people.
Dave J.: I agree, but I was taking a more cute-ish perspective on it. Like when my grandma pauses for a full five seconds before saying “African-American,” and I have to say “its’ OK to call them that or ‘black.’”
Then she’ll go into one of her accounts of why “the African-Americans” are such an asset to this country. “You know the other day I bumped into an African American black man at the post office and he was just the nicest man. You know just so polite, he was really polite. You know black people truly, truly are much more polite than they are often considered to be. And their babies are so cute, I love when they put the beads in their hair.”
And then she’s off on a tangent about how Downs Syndrome babies are children of God.
hobospacejunkie: Okay, I use great-grandma and grandma interchangeably, but my last great-grandma died 3 years ago when I was 21. Now I’m 24. My oldest relative, a “great-great-aunt,” died in 2007 at the age of 100.
Common now, you know you can’t underestimate the ability that Catholic Italian immigrants had to 1) pump out babies at young ages, and 2) live a really holy fucking long time.
hobospacejunkie: You can borrow my 94-year old Mom, if you want. She’s so cute, she still calls them “Nigros.”
So when will Lindsey come out and admit to fondling David Brooks?
it’s too bad all Soto has done in her 50+ years is give ONE speech. If only she had a great big volume of jurisprudence they could talk about.
What is it that he sees that bugs the hell out of him?
Oh I know!
She’s not a middle-aged white guy.
Prof. Junk: OK, everybody.
Sessions: “Muh Deah Miss Soda… err Mayo, aftah all dee hearins on diss heah flowah, taday, Ah think muh forman has hired enuff cotton pickas fer diss sea-son. But, if ya’d like, we’s can retirahs to daa Sen-ate chambers and git down on some of diss heah California skunkweed, gay-run-TEED, ta git y’alls appointed, approved, blew, tattooed and… ready fer a trip to duh 7/11 fer some munchies.
Y’alls approoved, lets GO!”
Lindsey G.:
Oh, he may be weary, weary
And Senators they do get wearied
Wearing that same old shaggy dress
Yeah, yeah, a-yeah
But when he gets weary
Try a little tenderness,
yeah yeah, oh yeah
You know he’s waiting
Just anticipating
A thing that he’ll never
Never, never, never,
Ever possess,
yeah yeah, yeah yeah
But while he’s there waiting
Still anticipating
Try a little tenderness,
That’s all you got-ta do
yeah yeah, a-yeah
It’s not just empathetic,
m no no
He has grief and care
Yeah yeah yeah
But the soft words
They are spoke so gentle,
Yeah.
So very gentle
So hold him!
Squeeze him!
Never leave him!
YOU GOT-TAH, GOT-TAH,
GOT-TAH!
[HORNS]
Try a little tenderness
[Horns fade]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dael4sb42nI
american mutt: You ommited your privileges under the Big Tent. Someone must follow after the elephants.
But, I mean that in a good way.
S.Luggo: ‘Omitted’
So what? I was speaking Pueto Rican.
Is the only reason you omitted “drunk” was that you were afraid to be sued for libel? Because you can just put a question mark by anything and it totally negates you suggesting it. Just fyi.
Cause Sen. Lindsey is several sheets to the wind. Or “tired” as they call it among Southern Gentlemen?
Prof. Junk: Aw, prairie shit. Everybody!
Hey, at least neither of them sounded as INSANE MOTHERFUCKING BATSHIT CRACKER CRAZY as Pat Buchanan on Maddow’s show tonight. Apologies for the all caps, but he was really that nuts.
I voted for the blackie, can I finally say niggers and spics?
I honestly don’t get this. Are they trying to get her to apologize for her “wise Latina” comment, or are they really just that tone-deaf? Every other motherfunkin’ question is about the comment or her background. I’m sure knowing that she can’t roll her eyes for three days straight at sitting Senators she’s most certainly rolling her third eye.
This whole thing is a farce. Forget about her rather conservative rulings when it comes to big business. No, the only thing anyone needs to know about her is that she’s Latina.
when i was a lad growing up in Baltimore, in the 40s, there was a newspaper read by the “other race” that was called officially, “The Baltimore Afro-American.”
is that term out of use now?
speaking of my home town….
yes, Baltimore- home of H.L. Mencken who long ago wrote that one day, americans will be pleased to elect a moron President, and his prediction came true- with the Supreme’s annointment of Dubya Bushya!
i can look for the Mencken quote in all its totality, or you can certainly find it at google. worth reading!
My grandmother: Negroes
My grandfather: (unprintable)
My mother: The blacks
Me: MR. TIBBS!
Lindsey Graham Takes It UP The Cornhole! http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/07/17/stewart-lindsey-graham-attending-ass-of-the-year-banquet/