By SnifflesEven as Sonia Sotomayor confessed to a passion for Perry Mason in her Supreme Court hearings today, the folks who dispense justice in America are looking less and less white and male.
But try telling that to the nervous Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee who will vote on her confirmation.
These guys have made total jackasses of themselves. Whether they're pounding and pounding and pounding on her "wise Latina" comment or doing bad imitations of Ricky Ricardo, they're giving the rest of us the cheaps (oh, totally!) and driving Hispanics away from the Republican Party for generations.
We cats felt that the Republicans' self-destruction was neatly captured in a short headline on the front page of this morning's USA Today: "Sotomayor pressed on ethnicity and gender." If we were, say, an Hispanic businesswoman, racing past a newsstand to catch a plane and glancing at that headline, we'd be furious. Heck, if we were just a woman, we'd be furious.
But we are cats, so we'll leave that rage to the females of the human species, whatever their color.
However, as the GOP Senators beat up on Sonia Sotomayor, we do believe that the silence from prominent Hispanic Republicans — say, the Diaz-Balart brothers or Ileana Ros-Lehtinen — is deafening.
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