MoDo: White Man’s Last Stand

[marmar]

from the NY Times:



White Man’s Last Stand

By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: July 14, 2009


Washington

You can’t judge a judge by her cover.

Despite the best efforts of Republicans to root out any sign that Sonia Sotomayor has emotions that color her views on the law, the Bronx Bomber kept a robotic mask in place.

A wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not know that a gaggle of white Republican men afraid of extinction are out to trip her up.

After all, these guys have never needed to speak inspirational words to others like them, as Sotomayor has done. They’ve had codes, handshakes and clubs to do that.

So when Republican Senator Jon Kyl, without so much as a howdy-do, went at Sotomayor, and soon was asking her if she agreed with Barack Obama’s contention, when he voted against John Roberts, that a judge’s heart is important, the would-be justice was as adroit as her idol Nancy Drew. .......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/opinion/15dowd.html?_r=1

[Hepburn]

1. Go MoDo....

...this is worthy of a HUGE K&R! I love her turn of phrases in this piece. Thanks for posting this.

:hi:

[BlooInBloo]

2. They're re-affirming that their only connection with Americans is via "angry white man"...

All other republican connections are for the rich and criminal.

Not a winning demographic-coalition.

[Cha]

5. Gotta add

incurably stupid in there too.

[madrchsod]

3. ya never know what you`re going to get from Mo....

this time she`s spot on...

[Scurrilous]

4. K & R

:thumbsup:

[Cha]

6. This is a nasty double standard

by the White men.. MoDo makes some good points here..

"W. and Dick Cheney made all their bad decisions about Iraq, W.M.D.’s, domestic surveillance, torture, rendition and secret hit squads from the gut, based on false intuitions, fear, paranoia and revenge.

Sarah Palin is the definition of irrational, a volatile and scattered country-music queen without the music. Her Republican fans defend her lack of application and intellect, happy to settle for her emotional electricity.

Senator Graham said Sotomayor would be confirmed unless she had “a meltdown” — a word applied mostly to women and toddlers until Mark Sanford proudly took ownership of it when he was judged about the wisdom of his Latina woman."

[CatWoman]

7. K&R

:kick:

[me b zola]

8. K&R