Well it’s finally over--the "wise Latina" finger wagging and the Ricci case dressing down-- the patronizing pontificating, the endless huffing and puffing, the damnation with faint praise. It’s over. The wise, calm, collected Judge Sonia Sotomayor has weathered the tempest in a teapot that is seven harebrained, puffed up white guys who make up the Republican contingent on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Their two rounds of questions were something like a circular firing squad for Republicans who have no doubt consigned themselves to a permanent 10% (or less) of the Hispanic vote in America for the foreseeable future.
And my senior Senator (I choke on those words,) Huckleberry Graham-- what can I say?:
"...to be honest with you, your record as a judge has not been radical by any means. ... you have, I think, consistently, as an advocate, took a point of view that was left of center. You have, as a judge, been generally in the mainstream."
This guy can’t even speak the King’s English. (I have taken, he has taken you have taken, not you have took!)
Idiot.
Now, about your elementary Spanish. It seems, since the phrase "WISE LATINA WOMAN" has been bandied about by your side for months on end, over and over again, and a million or so times in this hearing alone, that you would be able to, at least, get that right. RIGHT?
WRONG!
Listen, you dolt, when you are modifying the noun WOMAN (which is feminine) the correct form is LATINA, NOT LATINO. It’s Wise Latina woman (not wise Latino woman.) The same with the word family (familia—it’s feminine in Spanish) so the proper adjective is Latina family, (not Latino family (who believes in the death penalty.) anybody with elementary knowledge of basic Spanish would be able sort that out. And even if you didn’t know a thing, it seems like you’d have absorbed it through your thick skull, as many times as you have heard it.
Just think: This bumpkin--this rube, this uncouth, backwoods hillbilly might well have been our Secretary of State if his best friend, Johnny Mac Temper had been elected President.
Well, Huck is going to vote for her now. I can tell by the way he wound up his questioning. But if the price for that vote was two rounds of patronizing bullshit and a lecture on how she should reflect on her temperament on the bench --based on anonymous comments from some lawyer or lawyers who appeared before her at sometime over the last fifteen years (nobody knows who, or what their motivation might have been for that matter,) as far as I’m concerned she could do without his crummy little vote.
Chump. We will beat this guy when he comes up next time (2014? Whenever!) I promise.