Democrats Don't Need Hearings

From TownHall.com:

Judging from the microseconds between President Bush’s announcement of Samuel Alito to be the next Supreme Court Justice and the hysterical howls from the multitude of leftist organizations in the quickly formed anti-Alito chorus, it is clear that no matter how Judge Alito performed in the hearings, the Left would not be remotely interested in a fair confirmation process. It has been this way since the beginning of the Bush administration.

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The left quickly discovered that the judicial nominations issue was a fundraising cash cow. Alliance for Justice, a leftist coalition led by Nan Aron, grew dramatically in budget and staff members, starting the Coalition for a Fair and Independent Judiciary and Hispanics for a Fair Judiciary under the watchful leadership of their friends at PFAW. Leadership Conference on Civil Rights’ Wade Henderson, not to be outdone, started the “Save Our Courts” organization. Armed with shiny new organization names, fistfuls of fundraising cash from Theresa Heinz Kerry and George Soros and a sense of outrage at the outcome of the 2000 presidential elections, they set off on a course of obstruction that continues today.

It has never mattered who President Bush nominated to the courts, only that it was President Bush who nominated them. Faced with devastating electoral losses, but flush with near record-breaking numbers of judges appointed by President Clinton, these leftist organizations had long depended upon activist courts to enact their radical agenda.

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