Frank Rich On The "Sotomayor Show"

From Rich's column:
On the Judiciary Committee's hearings: "Southern senators who relate every question to race, ethnicity and gender just assumed that their unreconstructed obsessions are America's and that the country would find them riveting. Instead the country yawned. The Sotomayor questioners also assumed a Hispanic woman, simply for being a Hispanic woman, could be portrayed as The Other and patronized like a greenhorn unfamiliar with How We Do Things Around Here. The senators seemed to have no idea they were describing themselves when they tried to caricature Sotomayor as an overemotional, biased ideologue."

On Senator Tom Coburn's "You'll have lots of 'splaining to do" statement: "[I]t clearly didn't occur to him that such mindless condescension helps explain why the fastest-growing demographic group in the nation is bolting his party."

Check out the full column.