Republicans still don’t know how to respond to Obama’s empathy requirement for the Supreme Court. Sunday, Orrin Hatch took the rather weird position that only partisan liberals possessed the ability to understand other people.
Now, check this interview with Jefferson "The KKK Ain’t That Bad" Davis Sessions:
Q: When you hear President Obama talk about nominating someone to the court who has empathy and real-world experience, do you understand what he means?
Sessions: I don’t know what he means. And it’s dangerous, because I don’t know what empathy means. So I’m one judge and I have empathy for you and not this party, and so I’m going to rule for the one I have empathy with? So what if the guy doesn’t like your haircut, or for some reason doesn’t like you, is he now free to rule one way or the other based on likes, predilections, politics, personal values?
To summarize, a judge with empathy is one who bases his legal decisions on haircuts.
Later in the interview, Jefferson pwns himself:
Q: It sounds like that’s [being refused for the federal bench in 1986] going to give you some empathy for the nominee.
Sessions: I’ve said that many times. I have a lot of empathy for the poor slob sitting down there.
Just no reasoning with these people.
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cannot reason with those that hath none….
he really doesn’t know!
Jeff Sessions Claims He Doesn’t Know What Empathy Is
I take him at his word on that one.
How can someone whose middle name is Beauregard have empathy? :) It’s just not in the DNA.
Referring to someone as a “poor slob” shows a lot of empathy – NOT.
Whisky, Tango, Foxtrot?!?!
We really do need an IQ minimum for one to qualify for public service. Sessions doesn’t even reach imbecile status.
If I get a cool haircut like Jeff Sessions, will he have empathy for me?
AFAIK, Sessions has not demonstrated having empathy for any poor slobs ever. Now Sessions has enthusiasm. For corporate donors, lobbyists, money, power and running roughshod over the commoners. Yeehaw!
Well, that explains a lot. I have to admit W. had a better haircut than Gore.
And, everyone knows Madison had a much better barber than poor Marbury.
Bong Sessions wears a wingnut haircut. It is not a cool haircut. Therefore – no f**king empathy.
jeffy seshy needs to GO!
but we’ve all known that for many many summers!
The very definition of a sociopathic personality.
Poor Slob is code for Average American. Beauregard Sessions is an elitist snob.
Who is a bigger crook Sessions or Shelby?
Sessions may not know empathy but he knows racism when he sees it, every time he looks in the mirror.
Read My Lips: Empathy??? Another Biochemical Misfit also classified as A Sociopath. And today we have lab test that can quantify his distance from humanity.
The goopers are really in trouble now. Joe the plumber is leaving the party ! They’ve reached the bottom of the barrel. Poor babies s/
A lack of empathy is one of the hallmarks of the sociopath. Just sayin’.
Why am I not surprised? Sessions has been empathy-impaired for
yearsdecades.Bob in HI
I’d say Shelby has him by about 75 pounds…
The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Jayfurson “No Regard” Sayshuns tells all!
I believe that Mr. Sessions has no clue what empathy is. Otherwise, how could he be so calculating, callous, insensitive and ruthless? The dimwittedness, though, he manages on his own.
WTF?
Has anyone else pointed out that Obama is known to be a fan of Lakoff? Doesn’t that put his statement about empathy into pretty good territory once that association is known?
Oops, my bad. Now I remember it’s Howard Dean. (skulks off to hide after editing…)
Sessions has selective empathy. He’ll feign empathy for anyone who might be of benefit to him or his goals.
Sessions: I don’t know what he means. And it’s dangerous, because I don’t know what empathy means.
The Republican platform in a nutshell.
Brilliant. Ladies and gentlemen, America’s finest!!!
Below is an article on Empathy and past Supreme Courts.
http://progressnotcongress.org/blog/?p=731
jebus, this guy really doesn’t know what “Empathy” is
I was willing to take his word for it, but that quote is quite the clue
you got “empathy” for the “poor slobs” ???
everybody, using your best Inigo Montoya voice:
all together now, 1, 2, 3
an if that ain’t enough to convince you that these people are totally clueless, listen to bristol palin telling people that abstinence is “the only 100% sure method of birth control”
how’d it work for you, bristol ???
guess it ain’t 100% sure then, is it, you fooking CLOD ???
RE: “…So what if the guy doesn’t like your haircut…”
MY COMMENT: As bad as your haircut is, that’s not what I despise about you, Mr. Sessions!
A wonderful definition of evil is the total lack of empathy. Read that the other day and it made sense. Sessions is pure Evil.
I suggest that Senator Jeff Sessions ask to borrow Joe the Plumber’s dictionary. He might look up the meaning of “empathy” and “boy” and maybe “commie” organization while he’s at it. I’ll bet that “empathy” is in there. Joe says it contains the word “queer.”
I think maybe the Jefferson Davis comparisons are invidious. (That’s something besides empathy, I think.) Jefferson Davis is the only potentate of a fallen power who ever attempted to escape an enemy dragnet by cross-dressing. He said he never, but the yankees can show you the very gown and handbag.