TODAY IS THE DAY THAT ALL THE VICIOUS nonsense spewed by the left over the last couple of years starts to unravel. It also marks the beginning of the end of the illusion that the American people support the Democratic Party's use of the filibuster to thwart a constitutionally supported vote on judicial nominees.
For months now, head-in-the-sand leftists have been more than willing to put their faith in biased polls and the rhetoric of spiteful leadership to come to the conclusion that the Republicans are in trouble on this issue. All the while digging the hole deeper and deeper by stepping up the alarmist rhetoric. Meanwhile, it has been the Democrats that have been increasingly desperate to reach a compromise that will keep their dignity intact.
The rank and file has never bothered to ask what is wrong with that picture, but chose rather to run with attacks on the character of the nominees themselves. In Janice Rogers Brown's case, even the Village Voice doesn't get it. Nat Hentoff reviews many of her decisions, decisions that fly in the face of leftist scare tactics. He also debunks the charges made against Charles Pickering.
Priscilla Owen who, along with Brown has become the faces of the first round, has been maligned for being an abortion opponent, as if being an opponent of abortion is somehow radical in itself. Leftist sheep have again been more than willing to embrace bad information to vilify her, most notably claiming that Alberto Gonzales called her a "judicial activist."
Gonzales never said anything of the sort. He rather used the language in reference to the dissent opinion in a parental notification case, a dissent that Owen was a part of. Owen was of the opinion that upsetting ones parents and jeopardizing ones college money did not rise to the level of an exemption from parental notification for an abortion.
The Washington Post has Gonzales actual thoughts on Owen, mercifully condensed by NRO.
Indeed, today is the day it all starts to come apart for the Democratic Party. They, who are so good at rhetoric, are so lacking in substance it would be laughable if it didn't take so much of our time to point out.
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