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Sen. Graham to Sotomayor: "Unless You Have A Meltdown, You'll Get Confirmed"
Versha Sharma | July 13, 2009, 12:26PM
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At the opening statements this morning of the Sonia Sotomayor confirmation hearings, Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) told the Supreme Court nominee "unless you have a complete meltdown, you're going to get confirmed. And I don't think you will."
Graham's statements differ from other Republicans' opening statements, in which they attacked Sotomayor for alleged bias in the areas of ethnicity and gender - notably, Sens. Kyl, Grassley, and Coburn discussed this.
The senator from South Carolina also brought up twice that President Obama won the election in November, and that such "elections matter," rounding out his optimistic opening statement for Judge Sotomayor.
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DA in LA
July 13, 2009 1:23 PM
The Republicans seem to be bringing up Estrada to lay the groundwork for their coming "You hate whites" attack. I think they believe that if they tell America they actually like one Latino, then they can call another one a racist. It's like the old, "Hey, I'm friends with a black guy, so I can say horrible things about black people."
Obviously, it's going to fail. But it's amusing to watch.
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LarsThorwald
July 13, 2009 1:24 PM
Digging the new comment look. Digging Lindsay Graham keeping it real.
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Overreach THIS!
July 13, 2009 4:20 PM in reply to LarsThorwald
How you feelin' about the way our names are displayed? Mr./Mrs. THIS! wouldn't be too happy. Whaddya think at your end? :)
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atticus1104
July 13, 2009 2:57 PM
And don't think he isn't hoping for a meltdown. I know one thing, misogynists like Hannity a crossing their fingers for a meltdown.
Here is a perfect example of women haters starting the cannon fodder.
http://progressnotcongress.org/?p=2144
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theworldisnotenough
July 13, 2009 3:16 PM
I would love to see Graham be the sole Republican vote for confirmation
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