By a wide margin of victory in today’s Senate vote, the nation now has its first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice in Sonia Sotomayor. But that’s just not that funny – unless you’re drunk racist uncle charlie at the family picnic, or Strom Thurmond’s family (his LEGIT family – not the colored one, you know…)
Here’s a quick review of our greatest hits when it comes to our newest Supreme Court justice:
If there’s one thing our Supreme Court is best known for, it’s the zingers! Trust me – Clarence Thomas has perfected the use of ‘that’s what she said.’
How do you think Justice Byron White got the nickname “Whizzer?” Apparently Chief Justice William Brennan had this great impression of the plaintiff in 1973’s Frontiero v. Richardson that made White piss his robe around the water cooler one day – Brennan greeted him as ‘Whizzer’ every day from then on! Those crazy kids!
But now that it looks like Sonia Sotomayor is on her way to confirmation by the Senate, get ready for some serious throw-downs! Here’s a preview of some of the daily banter we can expect between a newly seated Justice Sotomayor and her ideological opposite and trash-talking nemesis Antonin Scalia, as well as the rest of the gang on the daily lunchtime run to Quizno’s. Read more…
A few months ago, when Sonia Sotomayor was first named as President Obama’s pick for next person to have their entire life’s record eviscerated, mocked, twisted and taken completely out of context for the sake of partisan gain and general time-wasting, we came up with a list of questions we knew were on the minds of the GOP members of Congress.
So here’s a list of things you can be sure will be right on the tips of many of their tongues during today’s hearing, and if Lindsay Graham gets riled up enough, he might just let one of these fly. I hear that when applied in just the right way, a titty twister will cause him to say exactly what’s on his mind…
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