GOP Sen. Coburn to Sotomayor: "You Have Lots of 'Splainin To Do" (Video)

—By Nick Baumann

| Wed Jul. 15, 2009 8:03 AM PDT

Whether you think it's racist or not, Sen. Tom Coburn's (R-Okla.) line in today's confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor certainly comes with some ethnic baggage:

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