Posted on 05/16/2005 5:55:28 PM PDT by CHARLITE
At least one lesson has emerged from the now months-old debate on whether a president's nominees to the federal judiciary deserve an up-or-down vote: Harry Reid, leader of the Senate Democrats, will say anything to win.
One of the Ten Commandments prohibits slander: "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor." The idea is hardly foreign even to those outside the biblical worldview: Slander is frowned upon in the civil law as well as in most religious codes.
Because of the widespread belief in the evil of false speech against another, Sen. Reid's remarks to a high-school audience on May 6 jarred: He labeled the president of the United States, then abroad, a "loser," an excess for which he quickly issued an apology.
But that was not even close to the harshest of Mr. Reid's statements to the students: He branded all of the president's filibustered nominees "bad people," and said that nominee Janice Rogers Brown, as associate justice of the California Supreme Court, wants "to take us back to the Civil War days."
Justice Brown is an African-American, the daughter of Alabama sharecroppers and an extraordinary achiever in the face of harsh obstacles. She enjoys bipartisan support. She was overwhelmingly confirmed by a vote of the people in her current office.
Mr. Reid's slander on her—he was clearly calling her an "Uncle Tom"—is reprehensible. It followed by days Sen. Ken Salazar's (D-Colo.) branding of Focus on the Family as "the Antichrist," and by weeks Sen. Robert Byrd's (D. W.Va.) comparison of Republican senators to Nazis.
Yet, in a national radio address on May 7, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) called on President Bush to demand verbal restraint from supporters of up-or-down votes on his judicial nominees.
The debate over judges has illuminated many things about the state of politics in America. Nothing has been more clearly exposed, however, than the willingness of many on the left to say anything—anything at all—in defense of their tactics and in the service of their ends. —•
Reid made his sons and son-in-law very wealthy with his legislation. Nevada needs to know about this.
I'll have to admit that I've seen the President bear false witness toward the Democrats on many occasions ...
He praises them way too often.
The hole that the dems are digging will only get biiger as they just don't get it.
IMHO, the hole that the democs have dug is just about deep enough. It is time for the repubs to start covering that hole over, with fresh horse manure if possible....
It is time to make these schmucks eat their words so that they might realize that they are out of power since they have lost elections since 1994.
Long live Bill Clinton and his lovely spouse for making all of this possible!!!
Reid has zero credibility.
Hi Char...
Like I posted many times in the past, and talking with the lovely Mary, these "people" are going balls to the walls and no holds barred...it's their Alamo, without Texas. They are sickening and I can only hope that not every single soul in this country has been so dumbed down by Pubic Edumakayshen that they can't discern what these marxists are up to.
I could go on, but in preference to my wife, I'll stop while I still have a brain without stroke and a heart without attack.
FMCDH(BITS)
Thanks for your comment, nothingnew.
Char :)
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