Sen. Cornyn shuns Limbaugh and Gingrich, calls it "terrible" to accuse Judge Sotomayor of racism

Dallas Morning News ^ | 5.29.09

[diamond6]

Sometimes I think we are so screwed with this bunch in office (our party).

[altura]

It’s a shame. Cornyn has been so reliable in the past.

But why not accuse the woman of being a racist. She is an obvious racist, has shown herself to be and there can be no denying it.

Many black and hispanic people are racists. More black than hispanic, I think, but is it immoral, illegal or fattening to state that obvious fact.

Republicans need to get over being afraid of the press. They will crucify conservatives no matter what they say, so why bother?

[libh8er]

Did they accuse her of racism, or did they point out that she has said racist things?

What is the difference ?

[libh8er]

It’s during times like these that you find out who the true conservative ideologues are and who are just politicians with a conservative bent.

[PGalt]

And antiquity presents everywhere — in Egypt, Persia, Greece, Rome — the spectacle of a few men molding mankind according to their whims, thanks to the prestige of force and of fraud. But this does not prove that this situation is desirable. It proves only that since men and society are capable of improvement, it is naturally to be expected that error, ignorance, despotism, slavery, and superstition should be greatest towards the origins of history. The writers quoted above were not in error when they found ancient institutions to be such, but they were in error when they offered them for the admiration and imitation of future generations. - The Error of the Socialist Writers, "The Law" - Frédéric Bastiat 1801-1850

Words and deeds, John. Yours, Sonia's, Barack's. Hope and change brought to you by force and fraud.

Lawyer John Cornyn and others like him have infiltrated/co-opted all branches of government. Judicial activism/tyranny knows no bounds. Legal plunder is in full force.

The Law...(excerpts)...

For there are two kinds of plunder: legal and illegal.

I do not think that illegal plunder, such as theft or swindling — which the penal code defines, anticipates, and punishes — can be called socialism. It is not this kind of plunder that systematically threatens the foundations of society. Anyway, the war against this kind of plunder has not waited for the command of these gentlemen. The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. Long before the Revolution of February 1848 — long before the appearance even of socialism itself — France had provided police, judges, gendarmes, prisons, dungeons, and scaffolds for the purpose of fighting illegal plunder. The law itself conducts this war, and it is my wish and opinion that the law should always maintain this attitude toward plunder.

But it does not always do this. Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Thus the beneficiaries are spared the shame, danger, and scruple which their acts would otherwise involve. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons, and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim — when he defends himself — as a criminal. In short, there is a legal plunder...

But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.

Then abolish this law without delay, for it is not only an evil itself, but also it is a fertile source for further evils because it invites reprisals. If such a law — which may be an isolated case — is not abolished immediately, it will spread, multiply, and develop into a system.

Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on. All these plans as a whole — with their common aim of legal plunder — constitute socialism.

But, unfortunately, law by no means confines itself to its proper functions. And when it has exceeded its proper functions, it has not done so merely in some inconsequential and debatable matters. The law has gone further than this; it has acted in direct opposition to its own purpose. The law has been used to destroy its own objective: It has been applied to annihilating the justice that it was supposed to maintain; to limiting and destroying rights which its real purpose was to respect. The law has placed the collective force at the disposal of the unscrupulous who wish, without risk, to exploit the person, liberty, and property of others. It has converted plunder into a right, in order to protect plunder.

It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.

Frédéric Bastiat 1801-1850.

[achilles2000]

Golly, that lying sack of fertilizer, John Cornyn, was on the Pat and Edd show on KSEV this morning, and he didn’t say anything like what he said on NPR on this point. Could it be because KSEV is the most powerful conservative talk station in a county that delivers about 1/3 of the Republican primary vote in Texas? Gee, I just can’t figure it out...

[DBrow]

There is a difference between “you said something that many would consider racist” and “you are a racist”.

[Guyin4Os]

Sotomayor belongs to the Mexican KKK, “La Raza.” That’s enough right there to support the claim that she’s a racist.

[jackv]

Hey cornyn...did you know she cites norman thomas as one of her role models? Who is he? Look it up. He was a six-time U.S. Presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America who said, “The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of ‘liberalism’ they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.”
She is as radical as they come.
It would be nice if for once republicans would stop being so dang lazy and find out what the rest of us already know!!

[EDINVA]

“Asked by NPR if he’s worried that comments like Limbaugh and Gingrich’s harm the confirmation debate...”

Cornyn should have said the confirmation should involve HER quotes and whether they were racist or judicially intemperate or not .. not what Limbaugh or Gingrigh said. SHE is the one up for confirmation to a seat on the highest court in the land.

[Theodore R.]

He could have stopped in 1998 in the primary for attorney general, but primary voters would not nominate the conservative choice, Tom Pauken.

[AbeKrieger]

Wrong. When you say that judicial decisions are made based on skin color or gender, YOU are the racist. Sotomayor has in my mind disqualified herself based on her statement alone. Judges rule on cases based on LAW. LAW. LAW.

[Sans-Culotte]

Guess it’s time to send my senator (Cornyn) a letter about this. Can’t wait to read the canned response.

[monday]

“The racism allegation - and efforts to pressure Sotomayor to withdraw from consideration for the court - stem from Sotomayor’s remark that as a Latina, she would bring a superior perspective to some cases than a white male judge.”

This is clearly not only a racist statement, but a sexist statement as well. What if a white male nominee had said that “as a white male he would bring a superior perspective to some cases than a female Latin judge”?

He would have been crucified by the Democrats, the feminists, and the media.

[roses of sharon]

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[monday]

“There is a difference between “you said something that many would consider racist” and “you are a racist”.”

Not really. Racist people say things that many consider racist. They don’t say them by accident. They say them because they believe them to be true.

[uncommonsense]

It wasn't just the “better than a white man comment”, she acted on her prejudices with the firemen promotion decision.

He'll be hearing from me today.

[Girlene]

So I guess Sen. Cornyn won’t be asking for any more help from Rush for future fund raisers.

[Theodore R.]

Maybe Cornyn has “grown in office” to the point that he needs no conservative backing henceforth. Still, I would imagine Hatch would have said the same thing as Cornyn did since Hatch “sponsored” the Ginsburg and Breyer nominations.

[Uncle Hal]

Rush talked about this on his show today. Rush did a fund raiser for this guy a few years ago. Unbelievable.