What did Jeff say?

by: mooncat

Mon May 04, 2009 at 13:54:49 PM CDT

The deal is done.  Our own Jeff Sessions will be the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee just in time for that body to hold confirmation hearings for President Obama's first nominee to the Supreme Court of the United States.

Sessions is in the minority now, but it hasn't always been so and I suspect he expressed some thoughts on judicial qualifications, filibusters, "up or down votes", "litmus tests" and the like back when his party was running things in the Senate.  It might be instructive to remind him of his positions, so I invite all of you to use the google or use your own excellent memory -- some of you are a bit like progressive elephants in that department -- and share the Jeffitudes.  Or should that be Sessionisms?  

Brian Beutler of TPMDC kicks off the game with this gem (and several others):

Hebert testified that the young lawyer tended to "pop off" on such topics regularly, noting that Sessions had called a white civil rights lawyer a "disgrace to his race" for litigating voting rights cases. Sessions acknowledged making many of the statements attributed to him but claimed that most of the time he had been joking, saying he was sometimes "loose with [his] tongue."

Alice in Bamaland

by: Dardango

Mon Apr 06, 2009 at 17:05:35 PM CDT

I'm still trying to understand, close to a year since Don Siegelman was released from prison, more than a year since the  60 Minutes piece that aired that saved him, why none of the supporting players involved in the scheme to prosecute him out of an election have been called before Congress to testify.

In my humble opinion, the Judiciary Committee has blown a winning hand waiting for Godot Rove. It would be laughable if a man's freedom, life and family weren't at stake. 

None of the other players in this tawdry play could have claimed executive immunity, only faulty memories, which would have been a tacid admission of involvement, and the pressure would have built for Rove to show up for the dance.

Damned if Will Rogers wasn't right.