Is it her coolness, her judicial temperament under fire?
Is it her supersmart answers to many, many pointed questions?
Nope. It's the accent. The little touch of a New York City accent. The accent that ought to remind Senators like Jeff Sessions that they are dealing with someone who shows up to a rumble prepared:
Enjoy it for yourself:Sen. Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.), seeking to discredit Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s judicial philosophy, cited her 2001 “wise Latina” speech, and contrasted the view that ethnicity and sex influence judging with that of Judge Miriam Cedarbaum, who “believes that judges must transcend their personal sympathies and prejudices.”
“So I would just say to you, I believe in Judge Cedarbaum’s formulation,” Sessions told Sotomayor.
“My friend Judge Cedarbaum is here,” Sotomayor riposted, to Sessions’ apparent surprise. “We are good friends, and I believe that we both approach judging in the same way, which is looking at the facts of each individual case and applying the law to those facts.”
Cedarbaum agreed.
“I don’t believe for a minute that there are any differences in our approach to judging, and her personal predilections have no effect on her approach to judging,” she told Washington Wire. “We’d both like to see more women on the courts,” she added.
As DailyKos blogger Upper West points out, it's her Annie Hall/Marshall McLuhan moment:
If life were only like this, especially when it is.
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I figure the Republitards are losing about 100,000 Hispanic voters per every hour these hearings run.
I'm kinda stumped as to what gomers like Sessions are trying to accomplish up there, unless they simply feel that 15 minutes of free airtime is a great way to connect with their angry and resentful supporters...you know, besides thru the normal tinfoil broadcasting network.
Also, Hatch's tender sympathies for nunchuck swingers across this great land provided another huge laugh, although the point he was ploddingly trying to get at was as obvious as it was ludicrous. (I still have fond memories of Hatch waving a copy of The Exorcist and calling Anita Hill a witch 18 years ago.)
I guess maybe they're trying to discredit Sotomayor so that they can scream for the next 8 years that BHO is putting hacks on the Court, or further delegitimize the SCOTUS. Ah, who knows what swirls within murky miasma that is the pea brain of a Repubitard Senator?
Meanwhile, if I ever get pwned so thoroughly on national TV as Sessions did, I'm afraid I'd have to go home and hang myself immediately. Maybe he'll argue w/ her tomorrow about what kind of cheese the Moon is made of.
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