Now let me get this straight (obligatory rhetorical questions follow): Which party instituted Jim Crow laws in the South?; Which opposed integration, school busing, etc.?; Who created the KKK?; Which party counts among its sitting senators a 'former' high-ranking member of the [WV] KKK (without an utterance of protest by the MSM, I would add)?; and I could go on.
Now, Reid opposes Justice Thomas because he's been an "embarrassment" and his opinions are not "well written"? More than one LIBERAL law professor has commented on the brilliance of Thomas' opinions and his logic. Reid, never having read one of Thomas' opinions, is hacked off because Thomas has left the Democratic plantation - pure and simple. Had a conservative said what Reid said to Russert (without the appropriate "what the hell?" tough follow-up, of course), he/she would be hammered by the dumbocrats and their minions in the MSM...
Not to mention Scalia himself.