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"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.

While the New York Times calls Brown "an archconservative" who "has declared war on the mainstream legal values that most Americans hold dear," they point out she is a California Supreme Court justice – one affirmed by voters in that liberal state with 76 percent approval at the polls as recently as 1998.

Sowell and others say the real agenda of the Senate Democrats, led By Sens. Dianne Feinstein of California, Dick Durbin of Illinois and Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts and People for the American Way is to use the courts to legislate their own left-wing social agenda, which includes racial quotas and unrestricted abortion on demand.

The same state that overwhelmingly affirmed Brown to their Court ALSO voted in favor of racial quotas during the October recall election!