The Rushpublicans have given us many clues about the lessons they absorbed from their losses in 2006 and 2008. As in, they absorbed absolutely nothing.

They have continued to elevate the same scum that turned their party (and this country) into an unraveling basket case. Among the many examples of the Rushpublicans’  failure to learn from their mistakes is their elevation of Beauregard Sessions to the position of ranking Rushpublican on the Senate Judiciary Committee. How it is that Sessions came to be in the Senate at all is telling, and illustrates much of what is wrong with the Rushpublican Party today.

In 1986, Sessions was nominated for a federal judgeship by Reagan. The nomination was killed by the Senate Judiciary Committee, which refused by a 9-9 vote to let the nomination come to the Senate floor for a vote. Sessions’s opponents accused him of “gross insensitivity” on racial issues. Sessions allegedly made a variety of comments that opponents pointed to, when he jokingly said that the Ku Klux Klan was not so bad until he found out that some of them smoked marijuana. Sessions also allegedly referred to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) as “un-American” and “Communist-inspired” because they “forced civil rights down the throats of people.” At his confirmation hearings, Sessions said that the groups could be un-American when “they involve themselves in un-American positions” in foreign policy. Sessions claimed that the remarks had been made in jest. One of those voting against him was Democratic Senator Howell Heflin of Alabama.

This guy thinks that civil rights and Marxism are the same thing, and is such a blatant racist that a Senator from his own state voted to keep his nomination off the floor. That didn’t stop Beauregard, of course; he got himself elected to the Senate, and now sits on the very committee that refused to allow him a slot on the Federal bench. A saner Republican Party wouldn’t have wanted him in such a position, since he’s well known for his ante-bellum point of view on racial matters.

There is, of course, no sanity in the Rushpublican Party of today.

Judiciary Committee senators kept up partisan bickering Monday over whether Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor would render impartial justice as she stood on the cusp of a historic confirmation hearing.

“I think philosophically her statements indicate an approach to judging that is outside the mainstream,” Sen. Jeff Sessions, senior Judiciary Committee Republican, said in a nationally broadcast interview. Appearing on another news show, Democrat Chuck Schumer declared: “She’s not far left. She’s not far right. She’s mainstream.”

If anything, she’s a few ticks to the right, but that won’t stop Beauregard, who apparently thinks that HIS views are “mainstream.” Beauregard is still fighting a war that was lost 144 years ago.

Sotomayor will get confirmed, but the nation will have to sit through yet another Klanservative diatribe from an ass-backwards racist scumbag before we get there. And Beauregard will be a hero to the Rushpublican rank-and-file, just like Palin, Sanford, and the rest of the blatantly racist right wing hatemongers are. It’s 2009 all over the world, but in the Rushpublican Party, 1950 appears to be a few years into the future.

Tags: racism, scotus, sessions, Sotomayor

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