I've been out of town for the last several days, so I haven't been following closely the Senate confirmation hearing of Judge Sonia Sotomayor. I haven't really had time to pull together what I want to say. But this link was too good to pass up:
Sen. Jeff Sessions, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said something that he didn't mean to say. He said what anyone in the public eye is trained to say in that situation, that he misspoke. Fair enough. no one would seriously suggest that Sessions intended to go snort some crack (or whatever it is you do with crack) during a recess.
I found this interesting in light of the grilling that Sotomayor has taken from the talkerati and, this week, from actual Senators who will determine her appointment to the Supreme Court, regarding a line from a speech she made eight years ago. Which, by the way, both the White House and Sotomayor herself have said was a mistake.
By the way, Sessions is the same person whose own judicial nomination was scuttled after comments he made regarding the NAACP came to light. Maybe he "misspoke" then, too.
So, in addition to a cultural heritage, white men are allowed to f*ck up in public and still be entitled to having our benfit of the doubt.
I'm so fracking over this.
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