I heard this interview on NPR last night. While I find it encouraging that Block also asked Cornyn about the wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences quote, she didn't challenge him to comment on the salient parts of the October 21, 2001 speech, such as:

Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see. My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar.

and

I am reminded each day that I render decisions that affect people concretely and that I owe them constant and complete vigilance in checking my assumptions, presumptions and perspectives and ensuring that to the extent that my limited abilities and capabilities permit me, that I reevaluate them and change as circumstances and cases before me requires. I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences but I accept my limitations. I willingly accept that we who judge must not deny the differences resulting from experience and heritage but attempt, as the Supreme Court suggests, continuously to judge when those opinions, sympathies and prejudices are appropriate.

I guess even NPR is susceptible to the soundbite mentality.

A wise man once said, when you see a situation you cannot understand, look for the financial interest.

None of these opposition assfaces would say boo to Sotomayor if they met her at a cocktail party. It would be all nice and sweet and cordial, and I suspect none of them would walk away thinking, "She's a racist.' Nor would they feel that way about Sotomayor if they appeared before her, as I have. Yeah, I thought some of her questions to me were insipid, but none--and I mean none--of the allegations these fringenuts are leveling make any sense or have a shred of evidence in support.

look to the financial interest.

The folks at this site are correct: this is about raising money through the base, and nothing brings in the checks like a good nasty us-against-those-activist-liberal-commie-racist-socialist-womb-loving-dirty-fuckin'-hippies like a Supreme Court nomination.

"Divide and Conquer"

Reagan and his "welfare queen in her Cadillac" was one of the ways the Republicans used race as a way to divide a class.....the working class, black and white. After they had the classes divided and many blue collar workers became the Reagan Democrats, Republicans conquered them. The working class has been losing ever since.

Now, it does my heart good to see this same Republican party being divided.

As Yogi Berra would say; "Its deja vu all over again."

Nobody is more of a right wing crazy than John Cornyn. Hispanics are poised to become a major political force in Texas and the retarded redneck racists who run Texas are worried. I'm surprised that Cornyn can even speak. His face must be very numb from having it pressed so firmly into Bush's butt for the past eight years.

One party is trashing the first Hispanic nominated to the Supreme Court; the other party appointed her. One party is belittling her pride in her ethnicity, the other party is welcoming the perspective that comes with her ethnicity. One party will attack her, the other will defend her. I'm not Hispanic but I can't imagine what the motivation is for Latinos y Latinas to be in the party that's shitting all over their pride, joy and patriotism.

I guess the Republicans figure if they can't throw Latinos out of the country they may as well force them out of the party.

wrong.

there is NO difference between any of these racists, elected or not.

they just want to have it both ways.

the dems need to go on the offensive and buy up every second of radio time they can.

and the message should be very simple, "the republican party racially attacks the first hispanic women nominee to the s.court".

t o let this redneck cornyn pretend like this is foolish.

Organizing for America is bombarding me with emails...contributions, petition, Sen phone calls, letters to the editor and this spiffy new icon!

I've gotten several e-mails from Organizing for America as well. Hey, as soon as I know with some certainy that she's pro-choice, I'm there...she's a great pick in all other regards.

Anybody happen to hear what El Rushbo's had to say so far today?