Posted on 07/14/2009 3:39:36 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — It's a good thing Sonia Sotomayor speaks Sotomayoran.
After week upon week in which plenty of other people on the planet interpreted Sotomayor's past comments, the Supreme Court nominee at last got a chance to deconstruct her own words Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Fingers splayed, palms flat, hands bouncing up and then deliberately pressing down to the table, Sotomayor elaborated, clarified, expanded, retracted.
She drew loopy circles on her paper; she ran rhetorical circles around her past words.
"I didn't intend to suggest ..." she explained.
"What I was speaking about ..." she offered.
"As I have tried to explain ..." she parsed.
"I wasn't talking about ..." she demurred.
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She is dragging the proceedings along with her slow . . . deliberative . . . ahm . . . . er . . . . deceptive answers. She won’t give a straight answer if her mother’s life depended on it.
I am waiting for one Senator to ask, “Why won’t you answer the question?” Instead they have been intimidated by every racist group in the country to backpeddle this hearing.
Good thing he warned her in advance.
I . have . never . heard . anyone . speak . that . slow . in . my . life.
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