As has been pointed out here before, the ranking Republican on the committee, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, was denied a federal judgeship by the same committee because he was (and remains) a racist troglodyte who is offended that Sotomayor thinks there are attributes that suggest wisdom other than being a white southern male.
She was accused of being a "bully" from the bench and having an angry disposition by unctuous Sen. Lindsay Graham, the lifelong bachelor with manicured nails and a manner more oily than a small Arab emirate. Graham, this morning, praised Sotomayor's personal story, telling her, "you have come a long way." He didn't add "baby," but he may as well have. Of note, Graham was a national presidential campaign chair for John McCain, whose temperament would have had us reduced to nuclear rubble had he been elected.
Sotomayor told the committee she was inspired as a child by watching Perry Mason on television (and reading Nancy Drew adventures.) Yet when it came time for Sen. Tom Coburn--most recently in the news for counseling adulterer and sexual harrasser Sen. John Ensign to pay off the cuckolded husband--to inject a TV show into the proceedings, he joked that in a hypothetical case in which she claimed self defense for shooting him, "you'd have a lot of 'splainin' to do."Nice going, Republicans. Going the way of the Whigs.
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