Why? Just tell me. Why are the Dems letting the GOP shitslingers get away with this imbecilic notion that she is somehow unfit for the Courte Majeur because she was part of a decision involving firefighters that was reversed by the Supes, 5-4? By that dazzlingly insipid logic, the four dissenting justices are unfit to be on the court. But don’t kid yourself: If Jeff TheStromThermondofhistime Sessions could wave a wand, all four would all be safely removed from the Court to some some pleasant minimum security retirement facility.
And the whole notion of her Latina…jeez, I don’t know, “upbringing” seems too stilted and incomplete, and “heritage” is just nonsense any more…but in any case the fact that she was raised Latina and would somehow view the world through a prism described by and modeled upon her life experiences is tossed into the air as evidence that she would be somehow prejudiced on that basis, a neat little take which implicitly assumes that the six white European-American upper-middle-class male justices aren’t just somehow free of similar prejudice, which would be laughable enough in itself, but which somehow presumes that the abovementioned white Euro-Amer upper-mid-class male is the standard and cultural norm. It’s not just one particular view of the world, it’s The World. Deviations therefrom will be evaluated for admission to the Power Circle based on individual circumstances and political realities.
My fantasy–and this is vicious and mean-spirited and in many ways unpardonable but it’s there, so–is that Clarence Thomas passes away (or, being a softhearted liberal, I’ll be glad to have retire suddenly, or have a debilitating stroke, or just wander off into a cornfield and never be heard of again), so that there is an open seat that is either (a) a conservative seat, or (b) an African American seat, depending on which demographic bloc you cast your lot with. The GOP would, to placate its base, have to essentially take the position that the Court should be lily white.
I just love what the right wing is doing to itself, which is described by a popular but anatomically impossible obscenity. I’m just happy to be here to watch.
July 14, 2009 at 5:08 pm |
I couldn’t possibly say this on my blog because of my responsibility to the children — it’s always about the children — but I figure Thomas is the most stroke-prone of the justices. I’m hoping SS is just so damn feminist uppity that she pushes him over the edge. She does not seem so, unfortunately, but Obama will have other picks, and I hope he has a list of Irritatingly Brilliant or even better Brilliantly Irritating.
I was listening to Sessions v Sotomayor as I walked back from downtown Oakland this morning. She’s cool. He’s a tool.