Flashback: Ted Kennedy 'Borking' Bork (1987)
Related: Sotomayor – Break Her and You Die
Watching the Judge Sotomayor confirmation hearings today made me nauseous. It was a Kum Ba Ya love fest, at its worst.
Long forgotten is when the Democrats routinely assassinated the character of any candidate for the judiciary for whom they perceived they disagreed with ideologically.
It has particularly disconcerting to witness folks who stood by silently when President Bush nominated Miguel Estrada, whom NPR identified as “a Honduran immigrant and former associate solicitor general in the Bush administration, was blocked by Democrats when he refused to release paperwork from his time as a government lawyer” but applying double standards for the uber-liberal Judge Sotomayor.
NPR wrote, “But Hispanic leaders who filled the rows behind Sotomayor cautioned Republicans from going too far with the Estrada comparison.
“‘If there are hard feelings harbored about that, well, she had nothing to do with it,’ says Carlos Ortiz, former president of the Hispanic National Bar Association.
“‘Miguel Estrada didn't make it to the D.C. District Court,’ Ortiz says. ‘It is not a fair comparison.’”
Oh please – I’m going to be sick.
What sheer hypocrisy.
Please re-read: Sotomayor – Break Her and You Die
And oh, remember, “Ted Kennedy 'Borking' Bork?”
Related: Sotomayor – Break Her and You Die
Watching the Judge Sotomayor confirmation hearings today made me nauseous. It was a Kum Ba Ya love fest, at its worst.
Long forgotten is when the Democrats routinely assassinated the character of any candidate for the judiciary for whom they perceived they disagreed with ideologically.
It has particularly disconcerting to witness folks who stood by silently when President Bush nominated Miguel Estrada, whom NPR identified as “a Honduran immigrant and former associate solicitor general in the Bush administration, was blocked by Democrats when he refused to release paperwork from his time as a government lawyer” but applying double standards for the uber-liberal Judge Sotomayor.
NPR wrote, “But Hispanic leaders who filled the rows behind Sotomayor cautioned Republicans from going too far with the Estrada comparison.
“‘If there are hard feelings harbored about that, well, she had nothing to do with it,’ says Carlos Ortiz, former president of the Hispanic National Bar Association.
“‘Miguel Estrada didn't make it to the D.C. District Court,’ Ortiz says. ‘It is not a fair comparison.’”
Oh please – I’m going to be sick.
What sheer hypocrisy.
Please re-read: Sotomayor – Break Her and You Die
And oh, remember, “Ted Kennedy 'Borking' Bork?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNaasFvvFlE
Sotomayor – Break Her and You Die http://tinyurl.com/mcumo3
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