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RUSH: Patrick Leahy has spoken out. He\u2019s the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. He has spoken out on the hearings to confirm Sonia Sotomayor to the United States Supreme Court. Here is a portion of his remarks this afternoon mere moments ago in Washington.<\/p>\n

LEAHY: It won\u2019t be in June. We\u2019ll decide when the hearing is going to be, but I\u2019ll tell you one thing that will motivate me to go sooner rather than later, when you have vicious attacks and leading Republicans call her the equivalent of the head of the Ku Klux Klan and call her a bigot, totally false and outrageous charges, there\u2019s only one place she could answer those charges, would be in a hearing. I want her to have a chance to answer those charges.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I do, too. I do, too. So Senator Leahy has just announced that at least the first phase or one phase of the confirmation hearings will be about me. Now, the KKK line is Tom Tancredo\u2019s. I didn\u2019t utter the KKK line, but I did say she is a racist, I did say she is a bigot. And while a lot of people have said, ‘You shouldn\u2019t talk that way, Rush, that\u2019s just too incendiary.\u2019 Nobody\u2019s denied it. They have just said I shouldn\u2019t say it or shouldn\u2019t have said it. However, folks, if you look at the entire speech that Sonia Sotomayor gave in which this line was supposedly taken out of context where the richness of her experience as a Latina would enable her to come to better decisions than a white male, that was not taken out of context. In fact, that is and was the context of her entire speech. Her entire speech, or a vast portion of it, was devoted to the proposition that the oath of office — she didn\u2019t say this — that the oath of office is irrelevant. That of course you bring your personal life experiences to the job, and of course you render decisions based on them. She made a case for it. This one line has not been taken out of context. This whole speech is a disqualifying speech. <\/p>\n

You know what else is interesting? I have had friends of mine who are legal beagles and scholars. They have researched her decisions on the Second Circuit and throughout her career as a judge, and they have found something very interesting. Aside from the Ricci case in Connecticut, her decisions do not mirror the racism and bigotry of that speech. So it\u2019s going to be hard to go back and say, ‘Well, she said this, and therefore she gonna rule –‘ she hasn\u2019t ruled, there have been exceptions, but she hasn\u2019t ruled as a radical. Her decisions haven\u2019t come down as a radical, although that\u2019s the wrong way to put it because she has been reversed 60% of the time at the Supreme Court. She\u2019s been wrong on the law but her decisions do not give you something firm you can put your arms around that would indicate she is using racial or racism aspects to come to a decision. And the theory behind that is that she knew she had higher ambitions. And despite her speeches, she knew that people were going to be looking at her actual decisions. <\/p>\n

The Supreme Court is the one place you can\u2019t get reversed. So the approach with Judge Sonia Sotomayor from the Republican side will definitely be the speech will be part of it, the context was how her race and gender make her better qualified than others. Richard Cohen today in the Washington Post has the weirdest, most incredible column, about how she\u2019s just one of millions of people in the projects who are qualified for great things because they grew up in the projects. ‘Dreams Built in the Projects.\u2019 I have it right here and you go through this whole thing: ‘With the nose of a trained columnist, I detect the whiff of elitism-cum-racism emanating from the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. The whiff does not come — Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich notwithstanding — from Sotomayor\u2019s own statements; nor does it come from her controversial decision upholding race-based affirmative action. It comes, instead, from the general expression of wow about her background. Imagine, someone from the projects is a success!\u2019<\/p>\n

What\u2019s weird about this is that when Sonia Sotomayor got up to accept the nomination at the White House she didn\u2019t talk about coming from the projects. She didn\u2019t praise government-run and owned housing. She didn\u2019t praise welfare programs. She didn\u2019t praise one aspect of liberalism for getting her into Princeton and then on the courts. She went and she went straight to traditional conservative values. She thanked a hardworking mother; she thanked a hardworking father; she thanked people that worked hard. She talked about the whole notion of working hard and not accepting gifts from anybody. She did not thank liberalism. Richard Cohen is out there: the projects made her who she is. The projects have had many more successful people lurking in the projects. But none of these liberals that are ever nominated for these kind of positions ever thank liberalism for getting them where they got. They always sound like traditional conservatives. Yet when they get into power, they don\u2019t try to inspire others to follow their footsteps. They try to get others to go the route of affirmative action, quotas, government programs that help and so forth. It\u2019s quite contradictory. <\/p>\n

Anyway, the Republican line of attack on Sonia Sotomayor, they\u2019re not going to be able to go to her rulings and say, ‘See, the rulings parallel with that statement.\u2019 They can show how she\u2019s been reversed 60% of the time, so what they\u2019re going to say, my guess, what they\u2019re going to say is that she\u2019s had ambitions and she\u2019s been very careful about some of these rulings, but that she\u2019s stealth. She is an Obama, and once she gets to the court, her radicalism can fully flower because there\u2019s nobody that can reverse her there. The Supreme Court doesn\u2019t get reversed except in rare occasions by another court down the line, another Supreme Court in later years. So it will be interesting to watch, and Leahy wants to focus on her racism, Leahy wants to focus on her bigotry. That\u2019s fine and dandy. Once again the news in Washington, the hearings will be about me. And the bottom line is it isn\u2019t about me. This is not about me no matter how much they try to make it about me. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Sorry. I\u2019m getting deluged with e-mails today. A bunch of people have said, ‘Rush, you are wrong if you say the confirmation hearings of Sonia Sotomayor are not about you. They most certainly are going to be about you because you are about truth.\u2019 I\u2019ll tell you one thing. Never forget this. Obama chose her for a reason. Obama wants his mirror image on the Supreme Court. Don\u2019t make me go back and play all the sound bites to prove this. We\u2019ve done it already. He wants his mirror image. That court, to him, is not radical enough. The Warren Court was not radical enough. The Constitution is a constraint. You can rest assured that any judge he nominates for the US Supreme Court would not be nominated if he or she was not a leftist, radical activist. For crying out loud, folks, he admitted he wants an empathy judge. By definition, he wants a judge that\u2019s going to punt the law, and write law from the bench. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, about this Sonia Sotomayor stuff and Patrick Leahy, who says he can\u2019t wait to go into these hearings because he wants to put her racism on the table, these charges that she\u2019s a racist and a bigot. My question, will Patrick Leahy allow Miguel Estrada to testify about the bigoted way in which Leahy treated Estrada? I doubt it. Will Patrick Leahy allow discussion of all the memos detailing how did he derail Estrada because he is Latino, at these hearings? These memos exist. The Wall Street Journal published them. They\u2019ve been all over the place, various special interest groups writing to Senate staffers — Leahy\u2019s included, Kennedy\u2019s included — this judge, that judge not acceptable. ‘Estrada\u2019s bad news! He\u2019s Latino, and we don\u2019t want Bush to eventually put the first Latino on the Supreme Court. We want that right reserved for ourselves. We can\u2019t have him on there. He\u2019s a Latino.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Now we gotta have Sonia Sotomayor because she\u2019s a Latino. Female. So she\u2019ll be a Latin-a. Latina. La-ti-na. And another question: Will any Republican on that committee have the guts to expose Leahy and the other Democrats for the way in which they have exploited race and have smeared previous Republican presidential Supreme Court nominees? I mean, it\u2019s kind of funny to watch Leahy acting all outraged over these allegations. The difference here is when I say Sonia Sotomayor is racist and bigoted and that she would bring racism and bigotry to the court, it\u2019s the truth — and nobody\u2019s denying that. They\u2019re just upset that I\u2019m saying it. ‘Gee, Rush, you gotta dial that back a little bit. That\u2019s a little bit harsh. You gotta dial it back.\u2019 But nobody\u2019s challenging the substance of it. In fact, Mike, grab Steele. Let me find the audio sound bite here of Michael Steele. It\u2019s number 11, and this was on CNN\u2019s American Morning today. Kiran Chetry interviewing Steele. She said, ‘Rush Limbaugh called her a racist or a reverse racist. Other people are coming out saying that perhaps some of her comments do suggest perhaps she could be racist. Where is the Republican Party headed in terms of how Sotomayor will be handled at other confirmation hearings?\u2019 Now, Steele will have nothing to say about how these hearings are handled. He\u2019s the chairman of the RNC. The chairman of the RNC does not, traditionally, consult with the Senate on confirmation hearings but nevertheless here is how Steele answered the question.<\/p>\n

STEELE: I\u2019ve made it very clear from the very moment of this, uh, announcement, uh, of, uh, uh, Judge Sotomayor\u2019s, uh, nomination —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Uh, uh, uh.<\/p>\n

STEELE: — that we wanted to take a, uh, very detailed and appropriate look at her judicial record. I think that any rush to judgment at this point is immature — uh, uh, uh — and inappropriate. I don\u2019t think that — Uh, rather, premature. I don\u2019t think that we need to jump on hot rhetoric at this point.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, so Steele is going after me again. Please do not send any e-mail or call there, folks. Please don\u2019t do this. Please don\u2019t call. Don\u2019t waste your time. Do not. Do not do it. Let the left call and pretend to be you (laughing) but don\u2019t do it. So once again I should say, Chairman Steele, nobody has denied the charge. They\u2019re just saying the charge shouldn\u2019t be made. We\u2019re still not ready for it. Obviously we are not ready. Well, Steele is. We\u2019re not ginned up for the fight here that we face. Of course! We want to take a deliberate review here, a deliberate look, of all the issues and so forth. Well, that\u2019s what I said: They\u2019ve already done that. Legal scholars on our side have already looked at her rulings, and they\u2019re well within the mainstream except those that were overturned. She\u2019s been overturned at the Supreme Court 60% of the time but her rulings do not reflect the racism and bigotry in that speech at Berkeley. <\/line><\/line>Nor do her rulings reflect her statement about how judges make policy. Her rulings are just bad. They\u2019re wrong. They\u2019re not bad law. They\u2019re not very smart. Her rulings are not very intelligent, but they don\u2019t contain all the bigotry and racism that was in that speech. And the theory is that she\u2019s simply holding back, she\u2019s ambitious. She wants to be promoted, so her rulings are not controversial except that they\u2019re wrong. The Ricci case is perhaps one of the most controversial. It\u2019s going to be very interesting if in the middle of her confirmation hearings the Supreme Court rules — or right before the hearings start, Supreme Court rules and overturns her in late June on Ricci. That would be delicious. But we have no idea how it\u2019s going to come down.<\/line><\/p>\n

If the law is the law, the Supreme Court overturns. If empathy rules the day at the Supreme Court, then Ricci loses again. We shall see. But regardless, she\u2019s ambitious and she\u2019s holding back. Once you get to the Supreme Court, you can\u2019t be overturned, you can\u2019t be reversed, and your radicalism can fully flower — and again it\u2019s why I say: ‘If Obama nominated her, Obama knows who she is and expects what she\u2019s going to do is be a mirror image of him as a justice on the Supreme Court.\u2019 (interruption) No, it\u2019s not premature, it\u2019s smart, Snerdley. Don\u2019t give me this premature. Steele might say it\u2019s premature. Okay, I\u2019ll be premature again. I\u2019ll repeat what I said the day she was nominated. Here, you want premature? Let\u2019s go premie. Here\u2019s premie for you. <\/p>\n

Do the hearings on Sotomayor and get to the quick of it, get to the nub of it to find out who Obama is. Because if you explain who she is you\u2019ll be explaining to the American people who Obama is, and there\u2019s a reason to do that. We talked about it in the beginning of the program: polling data indicates that a majority people in most issues do not support what Obama is doing. The approval numbers for Obama still very high, 63, 64%, but there\u2019s a tipping point out there that\u2019s waiting to occur and it can be forced, if somebody with guts and courage who\u2019s not afraid to act ‘prematurely\u2019 can get in gear on this thing. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: I have one exception to my objection to Sonia Sotomayor. I am not retracting that she will bring racism and bigotry to the court if she is confirmed. However, there might be mitigating factors that might convince me to overlook that. Well, what do we know about her? We know she\u2019s Catholic. We also know she has no record on abortion. Sonia Sotomayor being Catholic and having not said a word about abortion, I find that interesting. All libs who want to go anywhere in liberalism are pro-choice and they make no bones about it, she hasn\u2019t said a word about it, which could mean that her private feelings are she\u2019s pro-life. If I could be convinced that Sonia Sotomayor might be the biggest hope for overturning Roe v. Wade down the line, then I might be persuaded to look at her nomination in a different light. I\u2019m serious. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m dead serious. I\u2019m dead serious. Life, preserving life, to me, is a far more important issue — we can deal with the racism and the bigotry, that can be canceled out by other justices and so forth. But I mean if you believe in life as I do and the sanctity of life, the more judges on the court we could get that are pro-life and might look at Roe v. Wade as the bad law that it is and this is an open question about Sonia Sotomayor, \u2019cause she hasn\u2019t said anything about it. And that\u2019s rare for a doctrinaire liberal to be silent on this. She\u2019s not silent on any other aspect of liberalism from the multicultural curriculum, but she hasn\u2019t done anything officially on abortion. We know she\u2019s Catholic, Puerto Rican Catholic. It\u2019s just something to look at here. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: I misspoke on Sonia Sotomayor and abortion. She came out, she affirmed that there should not be US funds for international abortions. I misspoke. I said she did. I\u2019m going to have to research this to be sure, but I think she\u2019s come out and said there should not be US funds, international agencies that promote abortion. Now, given that, there may be something lurking here beneath the surface that we are all unaware of. So on that basis I could be made to support this nomination, if I could be convinced — and I don\u2019t know if I could be — but if I could be convinced that she\u2019s pro-life. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Mary in Inverness, Illinois, you\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. It is an honor to speak to you. We love you because you speak the truth.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Just a humble point about Sonia Sotomayor. I think it\u2019s just delicious irony that she comes from a government-funded housing project and that seems to be the biggest thing that they\u2019re bragging about her.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, Richard Cohen in the Washington Post is today. But notice: she didn\u2019t thank the government for making her who she is.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It was something she had to overcome because she came out of the projects, which is a government idea, a government-funded something that supposed to help somebody. But it seems to be the biggest product they\u2019re putting out there about her is that she overcame this gift from the government called the housing project.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, that\u2019s one way of looking at it. It is ironic.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it\u2019s still worth making the point that whether she came out of there, had to overcome it, the point is she didn\u2019t credit it at all. She credited her parents. She credited traditional conservative values: hard work, self-reliance. All these libs that get appointed to things do. Hell, even Biden. Remember Biden in his acceptance speech at the Democrat convention? He said how his mom told him to go beat people up that made fun of him? And don\u2019t just hit \u2019em back, hit \u2019em in the nose! Joe Biden, whose own kids learned conflict resolution by bending over grabbing the ankles in school. They never, ever, ever suggest anybody else follow their path to success. They assume that nobody else has got the guts, has got the ability or the competence to follow their path. Where we going next on the phones? Better put on glasses. This name looks unfamiliar. Sudi. It is Sudi in Manakin, Virginia. Hi. Welcome to the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush! I\u2019m another American mom so I am, by definition, an optimist. And I could not figure out for the life of me why Sonia Sotomayor\u2019s comments about Latina women being better at judges than a white male bothered me so much. It kept me up all night. I went and read the text that was in the Internet, and what irks me about it is I\u2019ve gone through my whole life, and affirmative action has been part of my experience. Not for me personally, but it was an experience in college. It was there when I applied for different schools, things like that, and I understood that. For me that was a way to level the playing field to a certain extent. But her comments ticked me off and it\u2019s because —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You want me to answer the question?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I answered it myself. Can I share it? (giggling)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s because she is telling my two incredible boys happen to be loving, smart, thoughtful, hardworking white boys that they can never, ever — no matter how hard they work or no matter empathy they exhibit, they can never — be as good as she is at something. And I wouldn\u2019t accept that from a teacher, I wouldn\u2019t accept that from a coach, I wouldn\u2019t accept that from a politician, and I definitely wouldn\u2019t accept it from somebody that plans on making policy from the bench.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That is an interesting point. I hadn\u2019t actually looked at it from that perspective but if you are white and you are married to a white spouse, the odds are your kids are white. It\u2019s not guaranteed but the odds are they are. So if you have white kids, and you listen to Sotomayor say she, as a Latina, is better than white kids, the white kids are saying, ‘Wow, feels good!\u2019 That\u2019s an interesting perspective. I hadn\u2019t looked at it but I\u2019ll tell you where it comes from. It comes from the way she was educated and it comes from the way she was brought up. I guarantee you even if she wasn\u2019t brought up this way by the time she got to high school, she started in on multicultural curricula, and she heard about the evil white Europeans that brought all the pestilence and all the discrimination, and all the hardship, all the disease. They destroyed the environment. They did all of this stuff. Then she gets to college and she hears even more of it, and she believes that to the same extent that those of us who believe in the sheer miracle of our founding believe in that. That\u2019s what she was taught. Obama, too. That\u2019s what Obama was taught. Obama was taught by angry people. Sotomayor was taught by angry people. She was trained to hate majorities. Well, one majority. She was trained to be suspicious of them. She was trained to believe this country\u2019s unjust and immoral. Throw feminism in the mix, and you\u2019ve got a point, and that\u2019s who she is. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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