Here’s the short version:
Sonia Sotomayor goes to testify at the Senate confirmation hearings. She lies about the “wise Latina” speech that she has repeated time and time again in the period between 1994 and 2003.
As John Hinderaker points out,
Sotomayor’s characterization of the context of her “wise Latina” remark is the opposite of the truth. She wasn’t “agreeing with the sentiment that Justice O’Connor was attempting to convey,” as she told Senator Leahy. Rather, she staked out a position in opposition to O’Connor’s. In her speech she expressly disagreed with O’Connor’s view, as Sotomayor put it, “that both men and women were equally capable of being wise and fair judges.
By the way, as a Puerto Rican woman born and raised in the island, this “wise Latina” nonsense would have been received by my Puerto Rican mother with a most uncordial reality check: accident of birth does not wisdom make.
She’s going to get confirmed no matter what.
The Republicans better save their energy for the Senate debate on government healthcare.
Update
Messed up on Kelo, too.
Title of the post inspired by The Reduced Shakespeare Company, who have nothing to do with Senate hearings.
I was suprised to listen and discover that Judge Sotomayor has a completely pedestrian mind. There were actually no insights to be offered and she made an utter hash in the narrative of Kelo and her understanding of the Takings Clause. Thank goodness, at least I didn’t hear this question, she wasn’t asked to explain what she thought of the 9th Amendment? Gruesome is the only response that comes to mind.
Fausta, the incompetence of this woman scares me almost more than Obama scares me.. No, barring criminality on the part of Sotomayor, we can get rid of Obama in 4 years, but not a member of the SCOTUS.
She is a walking advertisement for the stupidity of some judges.
I’m with commenter #1 – it’s stunning how poorly spoken and unintelligent she seems. I’m thinking GOP will vote for her for that reason. She’ll forever be batting 9th in the order.
I have had many white friends tell me that ‘only white people can be racist’. It seems that the 60’s generation that now runs everything in the US (and in general the entire Western world) has contracted a psychic illness, the disease of self hatred. It is no surprise that obvious racist attitudes in non-whites is rationalized away or outright denied. This disease is entering its terminal phase everywhere in the Western world.
In my own reverse Gramsci, from idiot radicalism to we’re all going to hell conservatism, one of the books that made an impression on me was Collier’s and Horowitz’s Destructive Generation. It recounted how large segments of the left pandered and excused thugs and anti-intellectualism. But mainly much of the book served to give me updates on many of the people I had known in the 60’s and what gruesome fates befell them. They and their children seem to be at the tiller but as of yet they have no Walt Whitman to describe their antics.
http://www.amazon.com/DESTRUCTIVE-GENERATION-Second-Thoughts-About/dp/0684826410