Now that the victims of Hurricane Katrina have served their
purpose for those on the left, Senate Democrats happily turned
their attention to their favorite weapon of mass destruction:
judicial assassination.
With the scalp of FEMA Director Michael Brown dangling from its
belt, the Democratic Party brought out the long knives for Supreme
Court Chief Justice nominee John Roberts. After failing to bring
down Don Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, and President Bush himself, Brown
is small potatoes in the vast, right-wing food-chain.
Still, there was plenty of lip-smacking across liberal land.
Even Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu had the gall to go back on the
attack after Brown’s resignation:
“The people of our nation, and in particular, the Gulf
Coast, deserve and demand full accountability for this
administration’s missteps in protecting and helping Americans in
need. Though the President has now addressed the leadership issues
with FEMA, he must still address the resource and organizational
issues which hindered our national response to this
tragedy.”
Landrieu, who was exposed for the partisan hack she is on Fox News Sunday
by Chris Wallace, apparently doesn’t think that her home state
politicos have a few “resource and organizational issues” to answer
for that resulted in certain slight “missteps” of their own. But
now that the rhetoric is dying down and some local folks are being
charged for negligence and worse, the cries for further
investigation are fading.
So it’s bye-bye Big Easy, hello out-of-the-mainstream activist
judge who is radically unwilling to compromise. There will be
mentions of Katrina during the Roberts hearings but only to
demonstrate that he will be the tool of a party that hates blacks,
the elderly, the poor, and inept municipal employees.
And Ted Kennedy did not disappoint when, in the opening hour of
the hearings he said, “The stark and tragic images of human
suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have reminded us
yet again that civil rights and equal rights are still the great
unfinished business of America.”
Actually, the great unfinished business of America concerns
ending the decades of liberal rule in cities like New Orleans where
the effects of its inadequacies were on display for all to see. And
the best way to finish that business is to disarm liberals by
returning our justice system to those who believe that our
Constitution is not a “living, breathing” entity but a framework
intended to limit the intrusion of the federal government in our
lives.
But the Democratic Party has been overrun by those who feel that
the federal government exists to control our lives and will fight
tooth-and-nail against men like John Roberts who believe otherwise.
And so we are treated to a week-long demonstration of the
differences between the nation’s two political philosophies.
Mostly what you get when watching these hearings is a belly-full
of politically correct banalities that flow from the mouths of
liberal senators like Dianne Feinstein. Her dreary accounts of how
banning abortion would lead to the loss of a woman’s “personhood”
and “autonomy” only make the case for oratorical abstinence. Her
rantings serve to demonstrate how terrified liberals are of having
their Roe boat overturned.
Women’s reproductive rights, end-of-life rights; it’s enough to
inspire the belief that the Founding Fathers risked their lives to
build a nation dedicated to the proposition that the government
should guarantee the right to exterminate its oldest and youngest
citizens in order to fulfill the personhood of others.
But John Roberts knows how and why this country was founded. He
understands the document meant to govern it and is presently
schooling those who swore an oath to protect it. Most senators have
law degrees but haven’t seen the inside of a courtroom in years,
and it shows. John Roberts — with his photographic memory and
incredible command of the facts — is running rings around the
older but unwiser senators on the Committee.
And he will be confirmed easily because the Democrats have no
choice; he is that good. And they have cover now since he is
“replacing” William Rehnquist instead of Saint Sandra. Though they
will continue their desultory attacks to placate their base, they
will save the dirty bombs for the next nominee, because Roberts has
simply blown them away.
