Steve Sailer has a
good suggestion for Republicans who are afraid to take on
Sonia Sotomayor directly but still want to make themselves useful
at her confirmation hearings:
[A] lengthy hearing over Sotomayor would be the best
opportunity for the GOP to begin the process of enlightening
the public that Obama isn't the post-racial President that
David Axelrod has spun him as. Clearly, the New Haven
firefighter reverse discrimination case of Ricci v.
DeStefano should be central to the hearings.
Yet, old-fashioned chivalry and post-modern sensitivity both
dictate that a bunch of white male conservative Senators like
Jeff Sessions can't be seen asking too many probing questions
of a lady/minority. The GOP needs a bad guy to pound in these
hearings, but Judge Sotomayor isn't a guy.
So, the GOP Senators should subpeona a witness on the
Ricci v. DeStefano case. They should subpeona and
then roast alive on the witness stand the
defendant, beady-eyed New Haven mayor John
DeStefano, who engineered cheating Ricci and company out of
their promotions. This will associate DeStefano's petty
political machinations to please his main black supporter with
Sotomayor, Obama, and racial preference supporters in general.
For examples of the kind of questions they could flail
DeStefano with, just refer to the Supreme Court's oral
questioning in the case. For example, Mayor DeStefano's city
attorney claimed that the city had strong evidence for
discarding the test as invalid after finding out the results by
race. But Justice Samuel Alito pointed out the preposterousness
of that claim in a scalding rhetorical question:
"[The city] chose the company that framed the test, and then
as soon as it saw the results, it decided it wasn't going to go
forward with the promotions. The company offered to validate the
test. The City refused to pay for that, even though that was part
of its contract with the company. And all it has is this
testimony by a competitor, Mr. Hornick, who said—who hadn't seen
the test, and he said, I could do a better test—you should make
the promotions based on this, but I could give you—I could draw
up a better test, and by the way, here's my business card if you
want to hire me in the future.
“How's that a strong basis in the evidence?"
This could be fun.
Now, what are the odds Republicans will want to have that kind of
fun?
