Is Jeff Sessions just plain jealous of Sotomayer?

[rurallib]

I get the impression from his insane performance that Jeff Sessions is like a little kid throwing a temper tantrum thinking "I should be the nominee. That's my job. And she's an inferior type human."
he acts like a 4 year old.

[havocmom]

1. That and the likelihood that he is a sniveling, racist, misogynist POS

with issues

edited for typo

[mtnester]

20. You left out sexist

but I think maybe misogynist might cover that too

[havocmom]

31. Yeah, I thought misogynist covered it OK

My dad was one. I am all to familiar with the animal.

[Hubert Flottz]

2. He wants to be a hero...

To the backwash base.

[Blue_Tires]

6. +1

he's using this spotlight to show his 'neck followers back how how staunch a defender he is of conservative values...

[L. Coyote]

3. No, he is a blatant racist.

[NJmaverick]

4. That is exactly the problem

you have a blatant racist, that was refused a judgeship for his racism, grilling a non-white candidate.

[SoCalDem]

5. Jeff just wants women "like her" to be doing what they "should" be doing

mopping his floors, watching his children, doing the grocery shopping, ironing, cooking.. in exchange for bus-fare, hand-me-downs from the family, and a few bucks.

[JBoy]

7. 25% jealousy, 30% misogyny, 45% racism.

[madokie]

11. 100% asshole

[47of74]

8. Yes

The dumb fuck, excuse me, I meant Senator, from Alabama is upset because she got what he didn't - a Federal judgeship.

[Botany]

9. No he is a racist little turd and the idea that a black President has

picked a Puerto Rican woman who is smarter than he is just burns him up inside
and that comes out when he speaks.


http://my.auburnjournal.com/detail/119189.html

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III

[madokie]

10. Sure he is

Oh and he's an asshole too

[KharmaTrain]

12. He's Over His Head...

Here's a goon who can't ask a question about case law cause he's never dealt with it. His knowledge of the Constitution can fit into a thimble and only got to where he's at now cause of seniority. Had Specter not switched, he would have been the ranking member.

That said, Beauregard is blissfully ignorant...a trait that gets you a long way within the rushpublican party. He's out there carrying the "white man's burden"...along with all the others. Each has some outrage that is specific to the parallel universe and they neither have studied nor care about her years of experience or "judicial temperment". And that's fine with me...it's alienating this corrupt and immoral party from women and hispanics.

[formercia]

13. My impression of watching Sessions on C-Span

I could see his face twitching like he was enraged and could barely restrain himself, like some racist psychopath.

[BlooInBloo]

14. He's pissed that a woman with brown skin is going to get there, but a good American like himself...

couldn't make it. So he's going to spend every minute reminding her just how not-white she is.

[lunatica]

15. He's fighting the good fight for the white man

Because he knows in his itty bitty brain that karma is coming because he knows what he would do if he was a 'Portorickan woman' who could have revenge on white men.

[PA Democrat]

16. I'm sure it must infuriate him that this female minority is up for the Supreme Court

when little Jeffie-boy couldn't get confirmed to the federal bench himself when the Republican controlled Judiciary Committee (this was back in '86) voted 10 to 8 against him.

For those who don't know the extent of Session's blatant racism:

Sessions was U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama. The year before his nomination to federal court, he had unsuccessfully prosecuted three civil rights workers--including Albert Turner, a former aide to Martin Luther King Jr.--on a tenuous case of voter fraud. The three had been working in the "Black Belt" counties of Alabama, which, after years of voting white, had begun to swing toward black candidates as voter registration drives brought in more black voters. Sessions's focus on these counties to the exclusion of others caused an uproar among civil rights leaders, especially after hours of interrogating black absentee voters produced only 14 allegedly tampered ballots out of more than 1.7 million cast in the state in the 1984 election. The activists, known as the Marion Three, were acquitted in four hours and became a cause c?l?bre. Civil rights groups charged that Sessions had been looking for voter fraud in the black community and overlooking the same violations among whites, at least partly to help reelect his friend Senator Denton.

On its own, the case might not have been enough to stain Sessions with the taint of racism, but there was more. Senate Democrats tracked down a career Justice Department employee named J. Gerald Hebert, who testified, albeit reluctantly, that in a conversation between the two men Sessions had labeled the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) "un-American" and "Communist-inspired." Hebert said Sessions had claimed these groups "forced civil rights down the throats of people." In his confirmation hearings, Sessions sealed his own fate by saying such groups could be construed as "un-American" when "they involve themselves in promoting un-American positions" in foreign policy. Hebert testified that the young lawyer tended to "pop off" on such topics regularly, noting that Sessions had called a white civil rights lawyer a "disgrace to his race" for litigating voting rights cases. Sessions acknowledged making many of the statements attributed to him but claimed that most of the time he had been joking, saying he was sometimes "loose with tongue." He further admitted to calling the Voting Rights Act of 1965 a "piece of intrusive legislation," a phrase he stood behind even in his confirmation hearings.

It got worse. Another damaging witness--a black former assistant U.S. Attorney in Alabama named Thomas Figures--testified that, during a 1981 murder investigation involving the Ku Klux Klan, Sessions was heard by several colleagues commenting that he "used to think they were OK" until he found out some of them were "pot smokers." Sessions claimed the comment was clearly said in jest. Figures didn't see it that way. Sessions, he said, had called him "boy" and, after overhearing him chastise a secretary, warned him to "be careful what you say to white folks." Figures echoed Hebert's claims, saying he too had heard Sessions call various civil rights organizations, including the National Council of Churches and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, "un-American." Sessions denied the accusations but again admitted to frequently joking in an off-color sort of way. In his defense, he said he was not a racist, pointing out that his children went to integrated schools and that he had shared a hotel room with a black attorney several times.

During his nomination hearings, Sessions was opposed by the NAACP, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, People for the American Way, and other civil rights groups. Senator Denton clung peevishly to his favored nominee until the bitter end, calling Sessions a "victim of a political conspiracy." The Republican-controlled Judiciary Committee finally voted ten to eight against sending Sessions to the Senate floor. The decisive vote was cast by the other senator from Alabama, Democrat Howell Heflin, a former Alabama Supreme Court justice, who said, "y duty to the justice system is greater than any duty to any one individual."

http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=8dd230f6-355f-4362-89cc-2c756b9d8102


I suppose that the fact that after that the people of SC elected him to first state attorney general and then to the Senate must help Sessions in his belief that his actions are acceptable. And he continued to use his influence in office to engage in blatantly racist activities. Read the link above for more info. Sessions is racist filth and the people who have voted for him should be ashamed.

[eppur_se_muova]

30. Very informative. Thanks for spelling it all out. nt

[spanone]

17. no hes just a plain prick

[Ganja Ninja]

18. That's the impression I get.

They all seem snide and petty but Sessions adds an element of anger. He's seething under the surface and not hiding it well. Asking questions about temperament and showing everyone exactly why he was rejected for a seat on the court himself.

[mwb970]

19. Sessions looks and acts like a spoiled child.

The more I watched that smug babyface with the broad drawl and the evil smile grilling this woman who is so obviously his moral and intellectual superior, the more I disliked him.

:puke:

[tomm2thumbs]

21. twits are just twits - he's a twit

[2Design]

22. standard southern white boy n/t

[morillon]

23. I would have to disagree that he's the standard here.

Racist pricks like Sessions get a lot of attention, sure, but you might be surprised how many decent, non-racist people live here in the South.

There's a guy in my extended family who is a loudmouthed bigot and drags race into every conversation, no matter how completely irrelevant it is to whatever's being discussed. The rest of us actively loathe this guy and avoid him.

The "standard" Southern white guys (and gals) I know fucking HATE racists and wish they'd go hide under a rock somewhere.

[2Design]

25. He is a cuter Jesse Helms - I never could figure who voted him back in

but they are cut from the same cloth

[unblock]

24. aw, let the bigot make his appeal for more campaign contributions from bigots.

as long as he's obvious about it and easily discredited....

[mitchum]

26. Yes, Ashley Wilkes is pitching a hissy fit

[Hepburn]

27. He is a RW Southern male chauvanist bigot....

...there is no way he thinks that a Hispanic female belongs on the SCOTUS. He sees someone like Judge SS as a housekeeper ~~ who should be quiet and remain out of sight.

JMHO

[rvablue]

28. Jealousy, yes. But when she gets confirmed (and I said WHEN not IF)

it is going to totally destroy his sense of entitlement.

Yesterday, forget who it was, maybe Graham, said these hearing were a time for Sotomayor to do some "self reflection."

I suggest that Senator Sessions do the same. Nobody kept him from the federal bench but himself and his past actions.

And the only factor that is putting Sotomayor on the Supreme Court is herself and her past actions.

So reflect on that Senator. You might learn something useful for the future.

[deoxyribonuclease]

29. Just another plain, ignorant bigot