[JustPiper]

Bush introduces Janice Rogers Brown in cartoon (BlackCommentator.com)

The cartoon accompanied a statement by People for the American Way. It depicts Brown with an enormous Afro hairdo and wearing the apron of a house servant. It likens her to Clarence Thomas and also features Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice.

Brown said she didn't know of the cartoon until just before the hearing when an aide called in tears, prompting her to address it.

"I have dealt with hatred and bigotry in my life," she said. "I can't tell you how distressing I find it to see this cartoon, which is intended to be so demeaning to a group of black people, and to know it was circulated by other black people."

However, she said she was honored to be featured in a cartoon with luminaries such as Powell and Rice.

"So," she said with finality, "I am going to look at this as an unwitting compliment and not focus on the vicious motivation for it."

[JustPiper]

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[JustPiper]

In support of Janice Rogers Brown-today's commentary by Farah

[SpinyNorman]

"I have dealt with hatred and bigotry in my life," she said. "I can't tell you how distressing I find it to see this cartoon, which is intended to be so demeaning to a group of black people, and to know it was circulated by other black people."

There is no hate speech like liberal hate speech.

"How can I depend on you to disassociate yourself from those views and follow the law?" Feinstein said.

Now that takes balls. When was Feinstein ever accused of dissociating herself from her liberal views and following the law?

""Be clear why the Congressional Black Caucus and other so-called civil-rights groups oppose California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown's appointment to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia," wrote columnist Debra Saunders in the San Francisco Chronicle. "It is not because Brown wrote a decision that upheld Proposition 209, the voter-approved initiative that ended racial and gender preferences in California state hiring, contracting and admissions. It's not because she was on the losing side of a 4-3 California Supreme Court ruling that overturned a law requiring parental consent for a minor's abortion. What really gets under caucus members' thin skins is that Janice Rogers Brown is a black conservative.

And, apparently to some (all) liberals, not black enough.

So much for the Democratic "big tent!" It is more like a pup tent with one small exit.

[Aegedius]

I felt sorry for Schumer, up there without his axe handle. I'm tempted to send him one, so he'll have it next time.

[WaterDragon]

Judge Brown is first class all the way. If the Republicans in Congress don't get this woman's nomination approved, I'm going to seriously rethink my votes and campaign contributions in the future.

[mvpel]

In that speech, Brown said that "where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates, and our ability to control our destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege, war in the streets, unapologetic expropriation of property, the precipitous decline of the rule of law, the rapid rise of corruption, the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit."

Any observer of the Welfare State in action can attest to the utter truth of these words. LBJ's "War on Poverty" pushed the churches and benevolent societies aside and created a web of perverse incentives that have all but destroyed the poor family and created generational impoverishment.

[aimhigh]

It's too bad the cowardly Republican leadership won't call their bluff and force a loooonnnnggg fillibuster. That's the only way the general public will become aware of this story.

[T Lady]

I actually sent President Bush an e-mail last week urging him and his Administration to fully support Mrs. Brown, and not to let happen to her what happened to Miguel Estrada. I think it would be an excellent idea to literally flood his in-box with our requests. It's time for the Left to stop getting away with all of the horse manuer they've been allowed to concerning Mr. Bush's judicial nominees. I'm sick to death of the bogus reasoning that because he did not win the popular vote, he has to nominate only those (flaming hard Left) nominees that (only the Democrats on) the Judicial Committee in the Senate will be pleased with. Enough already!

-Regards, T.