Senator Jeff Beauragard Sessions III questions Sotomayor, -- a lesser human being

[Cyrano]

If Sessions isn't a caricature of a white Southern plantation owner, sitting on the porch with his mint julep, watching over the "darkies" in the cotton fields, I don't know what is.

Watching him interrogate Judge Sotomayor yesterday was painful. It was an insult to the progress we've made since people like Jeff Beauragard Sessions III and his ilk held much of the power in this county. And it's an embarrassment to America that many people in the rest of the civilized world saw this unrepentant, despicable bigot spewing his thinly veiled venom on their television screens.

We've heard again and again about how today's Republican Party is basically a regional (meaning Southern) party. And this Senator made it crystal clear that what is being referred to by this "regional" designation is white, Christian supremacy over "lesser" human beings. Senator Sessions and those like him hold a poisonous world view that they constantly peddle to the ignorant know-nothings of the world.

And before anyone accuses me of bashing the South, Sessions and pricks like him have a country-wide following. Thankfully, they are a small, lunatic minority. But the damage they can cause is frightening.

And one more thing. Kick this if you think that Judge Sotomayor is one of the most wonderful selections for the Supreme Court that we've seen in quite some time.

[marmar]

1. Yup, convinced of his own superiority even though he's as dumb as a box of hollow marbles.....

n/t

[Sherman A1]

6. Was that an insult to hollow marbles?

I believe he would have to improve by several magnitudes to reach that level.


:hi:

[HopeHoops]

2. Beauregard is spelled kind of "French-like" - does Boss Limbaugh know about this?

You know how he hates the French.

[MineralMan]

5. It is French, meaning 'good look(ing),' I believe.

Fairly common name in the Southern states in the past. "Beau" is the nickname. Every one of these I've known has been an asshole, present company included.

[misanthrope]

10. Yeah but his first name, Jefferson, is an homage to CSA Pres. Jefferson Davis, so it evens out**nm

**

[Iwillnevergiveup]

3. Jefferson Beauregard

is a disgrace, even to his own "region." I'm just sayin' he looks like those crazy Moonies who committed mass suicide some years back near San Diego. Wide-eyed lunacy.

[misanthrope]

12. If he's such a "disgrace" to his home folks...

...how does he repeatedly win statewide elections?

[Cyrano]

13. Says something about Alabama, doesn't it?

[trof]

18. Says something about 'some' Alabamians.

But not me, thank you.

[Cyrano]

19. My favorite Alabamians are those who are members of

The Southern Poverty Law Center. Under the leadership of Morris Dees, this group has done as much, if not more, than most progressive groups in America.

My comments are not targeted at the Southern Poverty Law Center, you, or those who believe as you do.

But obviously, you are far outnumbered by people who think Jeff Sessions is just dandy and consistently vote for him.

[immoderate]

4. Plantation owner??? I see him as barefoot with a banjo, or maybe...

--imm

[csziggy]

8. Or this guy

[immoderate]

21. Seperated at birth.

Quite a resemblance.

--imm

[Ilsa]

7. Jeff Sessions couldn't get past the Senate Judiciary Committee for an

appointment to a federal judgeship. Two republicans joined with the Democrats on the committee to prevent the nomination from coming to the floor.

From Wiki: Sessions's opponents accused him of "gross insensitivity” on racial issues.<4> Sessions allegedly made a variety of comments that opponents pointed to, when he jokingly said that the Ku Klux Klan was not so bad until he found out that some of them smoked marijuana. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Sessions

I wish he wasn't allowed to even speak to Judge Sotomayor.

[misanthrope]

11. Those were "old school" Repubs...

...It would never happen like that today. Boss Limbaugh would put them in place and make them toe the line.

[Cyrano]

14. The KKK wasn't so bad except that some of them smoked marijuana???

I had never heard that Sessions uttered those words. Does he also believe that the KKK would not have been so bad if they had kept lynchings to a minimum?

Sessions interrogating Judge Sotomayor is just one more instance of an unrepentant bigot being given the opportunity to publicly attack a person of proven moral character.

Here's my fantasy. Judge Sotomayor becomes a member of the Supreme Court. Sessions is indicted for ... (pick it), and his case eventually comes before the Supreme Court. He will be in a position in which she will be one of nine to judge him.

But there's a big HOWEVER here. I truly believe that she would recuse herself because of his despicable questioning of her during the current hearings. Which would make her a far better human being than Jeff Beauregard Sessions III, and all those like him, could ever hope to be.

[misanthrope]

17. That's not even the tip of the iceberg with Sessions...

...He once called an African-American U.S. attorney "boy" and told him "be careful how you talk to white folks."

He prosecuted three civil rights workers for registering rural African-Americans to vote. They were acquitted.

He called a white civil rights lawyer a "disgrace to his race" for litigating civil rights cases.

He called the Voting Rights Act of 1965 a piece of "intrusive legislation."

He defended dubious nominees like Charles Pickering, who in 1959 wrote a paper defending Mississippi's anti-miscegenation law, calling him "a leader for racial harmony" and a "courageous," "quality individual." He also defended Judge Dennis Shedd, who dismissed nearly every fair-employment civil rights case brought before him as a federal district court judge.

He also insured that Mobile's Azalea Trail Maids, a group dressed in Southern belle outfits which are icons of a feudal system based on white supremacy, were Alabama's sole entrant in the inaugural parade that greeted the nation's first African-American POTUS.

[asjr]

9. Has anyone else noticed how manic/depressive

he looks? His eyes are scary.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

15. I call him Jeff Sesesh

He probably gets misty-eyed over the good old days and President James Buchanan's State of the Union address in 1860 when he said that the slave states are sovereign and their rights can't be interferred with so they should be left alone. And that President Buchanan proposed a constitutional amendment in that speech, recognizing slaves as lawful property and that fugitive slaves should be returned to their owners. Jeff Sesesh probably fantacizes about Pat Buchanan being President today instead of Obama.

[Cyrano]

16. "President Pat Buchan" have to be three of the most terrifying words imaginable

[noiretextatique]

20. Sotomayor is a great choice

:kick: and watching sessions and others like him implode is actaully great fun. the era of white male hegemony is over, and he's whining like a baby :nopity: