A Republican Party that Really, Really Doesn't Want Any Black or Hispanic People Voting for It Ever

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Original title is from Brad DeLong with a link to TPM:

A Republican Party that Really, Really Doesn't Want Any Black or Hispanic People Voting for It Ever Again...

After last summer's Sotomayor circus, the Republicans are back for more--this time starring Elena Kagan in the center ring as the honorary Negro!

Christina Bellantoni for TPM:

Thurgood Marshall Takes Center Stage At Kagan Hearings: Looks like Senate Judiciary Republicans have at least one unified talking point today: Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American to ever serve on the Supreme Court, was an "activist judge." As Elena Kagan kept on her listening face, multiple senators slammed both Marshall's judicial philosophy and her service as his clerk in the late 1980s. Ranking member Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) criticized Kagan for having "associated herself with well-known activist judges who have used their power to redefine the meaning of our constitution and have the result of advancing that judge's preferred social policies," citing Marshall as his son, Thurgood Marshall Jr., sat in the audience of the Judiciary Committee hearings.... Marshall<'s>... name came up 35 times. President Obama's name was mentioned just 14 times today. Sessions said Kagan's reverence for Marshall "tells us much about the nominee," and he meant that... as an indictment....

It remains to be seen what, if any, resonance the GOP's strategy of attacking a famed civil rights activist and esteemed Supreme Court jurist will have either with their base or those unconvinced about Kagan's fitness for the court.... Salt Lake Tribune's Thomas Burr caught up with Hatch after the hearings and the senator wasn't sure he would have voted to confirm Marshall. "Well, its hard to say," Hatch told Burr.

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Stay classy, fuckers.

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1. Ozy..."Stay classy, fuckers."

Oh yeah. K & R

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2. Asses

Wouldn't have voted to confirm Marshall? Asshole.

[ozymandius]

3. In about twenty years when there are three Republicans left in the Senate

The Judiciary Committee hearings for the Supreme Court will have one Republican on the panel dressed in clan robes.