Alabama
During today's Senate Judiciary (stay with me here!) Committee debate on the nomination of former Alabama Attorney General William Pryor to the 11th Circuit, Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) made the comment that Democrats don't understand the South. Now, I have to say the man is right. I have had the fortune of spending a year in Alabama, and during that time I learned many perplexing and even confounding things which I'm sure only scratch the surface, for instance, the fact that that macaroni & cheese is a vegetable, that "The War Between the States" is a polite term for what might otherwise be called "The War of Northern Aggression," and that the phrase "X, God love him" is not an evangelical blessing, but rather a wind-up for the biggest smack-down the deliverer can possibly muster, as in: "Sam, God love him, he's not going to amount to much," or "Suzy, God love her, she's a heavy girl."
So I felt pretty smart with my carpetbagger insight, when out of nowhere in the same Committee meeting comes Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), seemingly the biggest Yankee around, responding to some kind of crack-smoking claim by Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) with, "Orrin, God love you, I don't know how you can say that with a straight face." Ooohh!! A barely veiled bitch-slap to Hatch, with an implicit Dixie dis to Sessions! Or maybe it was just me--Sessions, God love him, didn't seem to notice.
4 comments:
You got you a link to them comments? it's not in the cnn link, so far's I kin see. You might could put it up on this blog, if you were fixin' ta git other folks ta read 'em.
Dan Dear, I dunno where them comments might be on this internet you kids are so groovy about these days. I just heard it with my own ears.
Strange that it's not on any of the internets.
'Deed it is, Dan. 'Deed it is.
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