Racism and Republicanism (Sotomayor Day 1)

As expected, the Republicans are showing their petty racist tendencies in the Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court nomination hearings. Imagine, that these guys with an intimate relationship to all things bigoted are suggesting that Sonia Sotomayor is a racist. It is quite absurd, but then again, Albert Camus, the French existentialist, noted that "racism is absurd."

Check out this Daily Kos excerpt which summarizes Republicanism today:

"A higher percentage of Republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than Democrats. But years of bitching about social programs that benefitted a community just emerging from the yoke of Jim Crow drove blacks away from the Party of Lincoln. In this decade it has been bitching about hispanic immigration that has driven Latinos away in droves. There are 535 elected members of Congress (plus a few delegates), but there is only one Republican Jew, no Republican Muslims, no Republican agnostics, no Latino Republicans (other than the four Cubans from Florida), no (openly) gay Republicans, and no women in leadership positions. Republican strategists know that the country is getting less white, less Christian, and less intolerant of gays, but they are powerless to stop the hatred of the Republican base towards racial and religious minorities and gays."

I don't plan to watch much of the Sotomayor hearings. She is so qualified they should be begging her to take the lousy job.

But as for the racial politics I know will emerge in the Q&A, I have known what the GOP has been about since Nixon. It is mean and nasty and pathetic. I don't need to see them in action for their followers. Check out the MLK Jr ad to the left. Imagine, their desperation.

Firefighter Ricci testifies too in this one. He is going to load up, I am sure.