Matt Yglesias

13 Responses to “Jeff Sessions Vs Voting Rights”

1. Rich in PA Says:
   May 5th, 2009 at 9:49 am

   Yes, it’s awful, but it gets into territory that isn’t our business. Republicans can put up whomever they want for Republican party positions, and “ranking Republican” is pretty clearly one of those things. I think the most decorous thing is to let them put up anyone they want, and use their bad choices against them politically.

2. Njorl Says:
   May 5th, 2009 at 9:54 am

   I hope Justice Kennedy takes notice.

3. DTM Says:
   May 5th, 2009 at 9:54 am

   I would think Democrats couldn’t be happier with Sessions becoming the face of the GOP on the Judiciary Committee just as a Supreme Court nomination is coming up.

4. joe from Lowell Says:
   May 5th, 2009 at 10:08 am

   Jeff Sessions. Minority nominee. Voting rights cases.

   Oh, man, this is going to be awesome! The best part is going to be watching the wingnutosphere gloating as they think they are winning, while the country recoils.

5. steve duncan Says:
   May 5th, 2009 at 10:12 am

   An Alabama politician enjoys electoral success. His constituents are happy he’s a racist, a homophobe and a xenophobe. As are the citizens of a dozen other states south of the Mason-Dixon happy their elected leaders possess similar sentiments. And Lincoln is lauded and lionized for keeping the South in the Union. If only Sherman had the benefit of thermonuclear weapons he could have skipped his march to the sea.

6. alina Says:
   May 5th, 2009 at 10:47 am

   Matt, I’m so glad you’re taking on these Dixie politicians. I can’t even keep up with the many ways in which they disgust me…

7. El Cid Says:
   May 5th, 2009 at 10:59 am

   SOUF GON’ RISE A’GIN’, BUDDDEEEE!!!

8. joe from Lowell Says:
   May 5th, 2009 at 11:08 am

   It was only four short years ago that the conventional wisdom told us that people like Sessions are “ordinary Americans,” whose ideas and vision were supported by a durable majority of Americans, and only slivers of the population of the United States objected.

   Seems like an eternity. Ha ha, look at the freak!

9. MR Bill Says:
   May 5th, 2009 at 11:10 am

   Speaking as a southerner, I think the Bush years were the second rise of the South. It’s failed and Progressives now have a chance to break the hold of the whole NeoConfederate/Christianist/Fuckyew culture, as I just don’t think it can be sustained much further. Maybe this time, the Reconstruction can be done right…
   And the Lefty Blogosphere really needs to keep the heat on that moron Sessions, and not let his sorry past be ignored when he gets scrappy trying to savage whatever nominee Obama sends. For my part, I’ve come to expect new outrages and idiocies from these guys because it’s what they do. If Obama can get the economy back on some footing, it’s a new ball game.
   My real dream from the Bush years is that the Republicans would be held to the same standards and scrutiny they gave the Democrats under Clinton.

10. NBarnes Says:
    May 5th, 2009 at 11:31 am

    Rich: This is using it politically. Matt hardly has any power to impede Sessions’ rise to Judiciary. Doing so isn’t the point of posts like this. The point here is to make sure that everybody knows that Sessions is a unreconstructed southern racist in the classic mould and that the Republican party is ok with that.

    *cues Al and the rest of the anti-anti-racism brigade*

11. pseudonymous in nc Says:
    May 5th, 2009 at 1:15 pm

    Sessions has managed to get away with being perceived as Senator Howdy-Doody Foghorn Leghorn, a fairly dim parody of the Old South.

    This little bit of extra context makes you go back to the kind of stuff Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III has said over the past few years and view it in a much less amusing light.

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