Navarrette: Why GOP Senators Misfired on Judge

[last_texas_dem]

by Ruben Navarrette, Jr.

>>>>SAN DIEGO, California (CNN) -- Judge Sonia Sotomayor cruised through her confirmation hearings without a scratch.

Too bad we can't say the same about the seven Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee who tried to dent her credibility and wound up demolishing their own.

The problem wasn't that Republican senators challenged Sotomayor. That's their job. The problem was that they did their job in such an obsessive and boorish way so as to make clear to the entire country that they had no idea how to deal with someone like Sotomayor. Like when Tom Coburn of Oklahoma tried to be funny by pulling out his Ricky Ricardo accent and informing Sotomayor that she had "some 'splaining to do." All this talk about whether the nominee was ready for the senators, and the senators clearly weren't ready for the likes of her.

Still, whether folks are ready or not, Sotomayor seems headed for the Supreme Court. The Senate Judiciary Committee was supposed to vote last week on the nomination but Republicans requested a postponement until Tuesday of this week.>>>>

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/27/navarrette.sotomayor/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

[opihimoimoi]

1. The poor things....pathetic in their lame attempt/attack to discredit ...they are so Dumb

[zbdent]

2. I think that the real news is not that Judge Sotomayor didn't come out without a scratch

(no matter how much they tried to drag her down to their level), it's more that the Repukes took such bad aim that it's amazing that they don't have multiple slugs in their feet ... which would be firmly planted toe-to-tonsil ...

[rocktivity]

3. And why didn't they write something like this DURING the hearings

when it might have actually had a positive effect?

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