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Larry Hernandez

Wed Jul 15 2009, 09:41PM

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First, it has been galling to witness GOP senators grill Judge Sonia Sotomayor on her supposed lack of fairness. Nearly every one who does this is as far from being a paragon of fairness as one gets.

Why was Senator Sessions shot down in an earlier attempt to give him a lifetime federal bench appointment? His blatant attitude of unfairness toward people of color, particularly blacks.

And of course, there is Senator Coburn of Oklahoma, who was quoted in his first senatorial race as warning his would-be constituents that: "lesbianism is so rampant in some of the schools in southeast Oklahoma that they'll only let one girl go to the bathroom." How fair is that to girl's bathrooms and the beleaguered gay gals of Oklahoma.

Seems to me that what we've been seeing is an outburst among White Republican Conservative Males of classical Freudian projection. What they fear is that she will follow in their footsteps and give them back the same bigoted treatment they have relished giving to so many different minority and disadvantaged groups for so very long.

Now if one of these panicked Senators catches wind that Sotomayor has been divorced, watch out! They'll be projecting en-masse all sorts of rude questions about her sexuality and trips down "the Appalachian trail."
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Second, did anyone catch today's story in the Los Angeles Times ( www.latimes.com/.../la-me-california-delegation15-2009jul15,0,767047.story ) about our state possibly losing a seat in Congress? While unlikely, if it does happen, imagine the delicious possibility of David Dreier and Jerry Lewis or Garry Miller being thrown into the same district. Now that is a cat fight worthy of Alexis and Krystal of Dynasty fame.

If we do lose a seat, there is every possibility that it could be due to a statewide contagion among far right paranoids refusing to take part in the upcoming US Census. Already the loony twins: Rep. Michelle Bachman of Minnesota and Glenn Beck have taken this latest hobgoblin up. If our lost seat can be traceable to such a boycott, then why not take the seat out of the GOP's hide?

Russ Warner could soon have a badly divided GOP give him our local seat. Wouldn't that be Nice!


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