Corker Impatiently Blows Off Meeting With Sotomayor Because She Was Slowed By Temporary Disability

[Are_grits_groceries]

Last Thursday, Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) was scheduled to meet with Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. Yet when Sotomayor was delayed because of her recent injury, Corker decided that he had more important things to do than to wait around for a potential lifetime appointee who is temporarily disabled:

Sen. Bob Corker blew off his meeting with Sonia Sotomayor last week. Hobbling along with her leg in a cast, she was 10 minutes late and he said he didn’t feel like waiting. “I decided to proceed on to the next meeting,” he told a Tennessee Press Association breakfast in Chattanooga.

Despite the fact that Senate conservatives had repeatedly vowed to give Sotomayor a “fair and respectful process” that gives her a “fair opportunity to provide full and complete answers” to any questions about her record, Corker is now the second GOP senator to refuse to meet with Judge Sotomayor. Last week, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) also blew off his meeting with Sotomayor and announced that he made up his mind vote against her nomination in 1998 — eleven years before she was actually nominated.

http://thinkprogress.org/

Attention Senator Corker. Your Karma train is being loaded and will be around soon. That man was not raised right bless his heart.

[WillParkinson]

1. Wow...

I hope that Karma train rolls around when he's tied to the tracks.

[SharonAnn]

10. Oh well. He probably wasn't going to vote for her anyway.

[malaise]

2. He probably has to attend a meeting with

"The Family". Ensign and Coburn need him urgently. :evilgrin:

[Are_grits_groceries]

4. Inhofe too.

If you turned their brains into gas and put it in a motorcycle, that bike wouldn't go half way around a BB.

[panader0]

3. Don't bless his heart

That's too kind of you.

[Lars39]

5. Not the way he meant it.

:evilgrin:

[Are_grits_groceries]

8. Oh, it's exactly the right thing to say.

It is an old Southern way of dissing somebody. It's the polite way of flipping the bird. Saying "bless your heart" is like declaring open season while retaining one's manners.

bless your heart
Southern excuse to insult people without being rude.

That little girl has a face only a mother could love. Bless her little heart.

Your mother is a whore who sleeps around. Bless your heart.

:evilgrin:

[Cresent City Kid]

6. "So busy" impeding health care reform

I hope if he's ever late for something, his limo leaves without him. You get the empathy you give.

[WI_DEM]

7. If that is how he treats a court nominee with a temporary disability just think about how he would

treat somebody with a permanent disability. I'll bet he even parks in disability spaces.

[ColbertWatcher]

9. He keeps the limo parked in a red zone with the engine running. n/t

[Stephanie]

11. It was her sex, her ethnicity, and her uppityness that made him disrespect her like that

If a white male nominee came hobbling through the halls I think he'd wait ten minutes for him.