Jeff Sessions: "We're Going To Do That Crack Cocaine Thing" (VIDEO)

Senator Jeff Sessions simultaneously shocked and cracked up the Sotomayor hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday afternoon when he said he was looking forward to doing "that crack cocaine thing" with Senator Patrick Leahy and Wade Henderson, the president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights.

Sessions, in a casual tone, said "Mr. Henderson, It's good to work with you. Senator Leahy and I are talking during these hearings, we're going to do that crack cocaine thing that you and I have talked about before."

After an awkward pause, Henderson laughed to himself and said, "Thank you, Senator, I appreciate that."

While the Senate gallery laughed, and witnesses including NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former FBI director Louis Freeh snickered, Sessions sputtered, "Let me correct the record."

Sessions explained: "I misspoke. We're going to reduce the burden of penalties in some of the crack cocaine cases and make them fair."

Watch the video:

Comments

[Wood]

Jimmy Crack corn himself....

[amiri1]

Sessions needs to layoff the crack pipe.

[BilaalUSA]

Wade Henderson missed an opportunity, that if turn the other way around would have been pounced on in a heartbeat. A liberal candidate can't even use the word "bitter" for "frustrated" and Wade just sat there and essentially said: "Yowsir, boss I's knows watchu you rayly tryn ta say!" "He-he-he"

[Professorofdesire]

This guy is the reason that Brownback introduced a bill to outlaw human-animal cloning. In addition to those elf ears, I bet he has hairy cloven feet.

[Roscheblue]

I always thought that Sessions was on something...

[levibatgirl]

Doing your cra cker 'thing' is already way more than enough little r@cist.

[10LittleIndians]

CRACKHEAD

[C IH8U2]

So he does dr.-u.g.$. He admits it. Those are his words. So it must be the truth. __________­__________­__________­__________­__________­__________­__________­_______ See how easy it is to be taken out of context. Until he'll admits that he took Sotomayor's comments out of context, this is the sound bite I'll stick to.

[Bude]

What a piece of work!

[Rynox]

And more on the actual point he was trying to get at... Great idea. Crack cocaine penalties are disproportionately and unfairly harsh.

[CaveatMagnusFrater]

Give credit where it's due. The penalty for posession of crack cocaine is 10 more harsh then for pure cocaine. He's willing to allow an adjustment toward fairness.

[Rynox]

Hey, all politics aside... that's funny.

[lochnessmonster]

Sessions explained: "I misspoke.

Let's replay this quote for the Republican pundits when they want to call out a Dem for something.

[Passenger57]

This guy is a fool, but if he says he misspoke...I'll give him a pass.
Doesn't excuse him from all the OTHER stupid stuff he's said on purpose, though...

[Rynox]

Yep. I agree with you. Sometimes you just gotta sit back and have a good laugh. I've watched this 5 times already.

[HRP]

How does this numbnut get to comment on anything, let alone a future supreme court judge? I'm beginning to think you need no qualifications at all to be a US Senator.

[CharlesLewis]

The only qualification is money. From anywhere, anyone.

[dinglebe]

How can a person be so stupid, and end up in the Senate?