<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e8c270d9-eac8-48b6-a18b-6f8d6a6cd08d/0A7F9470-5009-4F4F-8D96-2CC7A6C1E8FB/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/07/does-a-senator-have-some-splainin-to-do.html" href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/07/does-a-senator-have-some-splainin-to-do.html" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.abcnews.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/07/does-a-senator-have-some-splainin-to-do.html">It registered as a moment of levity inside the hearing room. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/07/does-a-senator-have-some-splainin-to-do.html"><P class="MsoNoSpacing">Yes, <A target="_blank" href="http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=8092122">Judge Sonia Sotomayor was hypothetically talking about shooting a sitting US senator</A>. And yes, that senator responded by channeling Ricky Ricardo. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/07/does-a-senator-have-some-splainin-to-do.html"><P class="MsoNoSpacing">As part of a discussion of the Second Amendment with Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., Sotomayor produced an unusual hypothetical:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/07/does-a-senator-have-some-splainin-to-do.html"><P class="MsoNoSpacing">SOTOMAYOR: “If I go home, get a gun, come back and shoot you, that may not be legal under New York law because you would have alternative ways to defend...”</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/07/does-a-senator-have-some-splainin-to-do.html"><P class="MsoNoSpacing">COBURN: “You'll have lots of 'splainin' to do.”</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/07/does-a-senator-have-some-splainin-to-do.html"><P class="MsoNoSpacing">SOTOMAYOR: “I'd be in a lot of trouble then.”</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/07/does-a-senator-have-some-splainin-to-do.html">Both Coburn and Sotomayor were laughing by the end of the exchange. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/07/does-a-senator-have-some-splainin-to-do.html"><DIV>Asked to respond, Coburn’s spokesman, John Hart, told ABC that “of course it was a joke”: “Before you fuel an ethnic controversy you should watch the exchange. Who is offended? Are you asking us to respond to people who are offended or people you believe might be offended?”</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0A7F9470-5009-4F4F-8D96-2CC7A6C1E8FB/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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