Monday, June 22, 2009
Politics / Woods Corker Blows Off Meeting with Sotomayor
Posted by Jeff Woods on Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 5:59 AM
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. Oh well, it's only the Supreme Court.
Wasn't Corker the least bit interested in asking the judge about all the criticism coming her way from conservatives like Sean Hannity? According to them, she's a wild-eyed judicial activist bent on twisting the law to fit her personal liberal agenda. She's anti-gun and pro-abortion!
We're wondering whether Corker still intends to vote on Sotomayor's nomination? Who knows? That might inconvenience the senator, too.
Update: Corker's flack says the senator has rescheduled his meeting with Sotomayor for tomorrow.
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I made a terrible mistake. I listened to the clip while eating breakfast.
Senator Corker is obviously a very busy and important man. Since Supreme Court nominee Sotomayor was apparently only given ten minutes from the start. After all, if her appointment was longer than ten minutes, the good Senator would still have had time to visit with her without going on to the next appointment.
So, you really need to give him a break here. He must have supplicants lining up to seek his wisdom, counsel, and sheer raw power, on a ten minute at a time basis. Think about it, he has to heal the sick and give comfort to the suffering all day long. It must be tiring. Surely, you can forgive him for not seeing some wild eyed liberal precedent follower.
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Yeah, "photo op" -- as if Sonia Sotomayor, who I've seen countless times on television with the president and with senators who actually have power, cares about having her picture taken with the blowhard junior senator from a state that has no significance on the electoral map.
The purpose of this is for the nominee to answer questions from senators who, under the checks and balances process set by the Constitution, confirm or deny her nomination to the supreme court. I guess Corker didn't have any questions for the nominee. A very responsible senator.
So, the important questions have been asked and answered by, as you put it, "senators who actually have power", I again ask...
what's the prob?
I guess the prob is that we have a hissybitch in Washington instead of a senator.
It's interesting that nobody has pointed out that if you are an obscure federal judge whose appointment to the highest Court in the land requires Senate approval, you might want to be on time for those meetings.
unbelievable... sort of.
I am offended by his complete and utter lack of respect. and, she is “only” a candidate for the United States Supreme Court.
I will be so glad when Phil Bredesen runs for the u.s. senate in 2012. he will blow the little man out of the water... oh, and more importantly, he can match the little man dollar for dollar $$$$$
Bredesen for Senate in 2012!
Nor has anyone pointed out that, by Capitol Hill standards, 10 minutes late is on time. Or that it also doesn't behoove you to abruptly end your meeting with some long-winded senator so you can rush down on your crutches to the next one with Bobhorn Leghorn.
In Washington, bailing out on someone who's just 10 minutes late suggests that (a) you didn't care about the meeting to begin with; (b) you're playing some weird variant of "gotcha" to impugn the other person; or (c) you're the kind of person who worries about whether anal retentive should be hyphenated.
"It's interesting that nobody has pointed out that if you are an obscure federal judge whose appointment to the highest Court in the land requires Senate approval, you might want to be on time for those meetings."
Especially if you're on fuckin CRUTCHES.
Sorry, Minimum Bob strutted right off the edge on this one.
Then again, as someone pointed out earlier, if you're an obscure senator whose vote isn't going to make any difference, perhaps people are going to show up fashionably late to your office.
I think the explanation is quite simple. He had to run to the bathroom because he's full of it.
That's going to be Associate Justice Stupid Bitch to you, you teabagging douche.
