Sen. Dick Durbin: Simply Reprehensible

Here's what Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) said during the Sotomayor Hearings:

DURBIN: When we asked questions of the white, male nominees of a Republican president we were basically trying to find out whether, uhhh... to make sure, eh, that they would go far enough in understanding the plight of minorities. 'Cause clearly that was not in...their...DNA.

This is a detestable man and a reprehensible figure. This is the guy who compared the U.S. military to Pol Pot's brigades, Nazis, and Stalinists and so forth in the way they treated prisoners. He had to apologize for it. Now he says that white male Republican judicial nominees are genetically racist.

This must also mean that it's also in Durbin's DNA to block any Republican minority nominee. Or any white male Democrat senator for that matter. Examples are Miguel Estrada and Janice Rogers Brown. Miguel Estrada, a brilliant jurist, did not even get a vote. He's Hispanic. So I guess it also wasn't in Durbin's DNA to allow a vote on the Senate floor for a Hispanic.

It really makes me wonder why the people in Illinois continue to vote in a man like this. They probably think there's no one better. I Say there's no one worse. (HT Rush Limbaugh):

Rush Limbaugh: Dick Durbin Makes Racist Remark, While Coburn Has 'Splainin' to Do