"President Bush's far-right allies are spending millions of dollars to pressure him to pick not just a conservative, but an extreme conservative, someone out of the mainstream, someone who will impose their narrow partisan agenda from the perch of the highest court in the land instead of faithfully interpreting the law."
Even though I have come to expect such blatant lies from the likes of Harry Reid, at times it can still make by blood boil to hear such nonsense.
Reid must not possess one ounce of shame for him to be able to say such things. Anyone who is honest will admit that it is the Left, not the Right, that uses the Courts to impose what can't be won in the proper democratic/political/popular channels.
Abortion on demand, gay marriage/civil unions, citizen-like status for illegal aliens, near unlimited taking power, etc --- all imposed by the Courts, not the people or their elected representatives. If the Sup Court were made up of 9 Scalias and Thomases then each of these things would be settled by the people or their elected leaders. There would be no mandate handed down from the Court. The only time they'd step in and strike down duly passed laws are when they clearly violate a Constitutional right that is actually in the Constitution -- like the former provision against government takings of private property. Reid knows this, but he's become such Ted Kennedyesque demagogue that he accuses conservative judges of doing what his kind is guilty of.
And that the GOP isn't better and more forceful in responding to such lies and absurdities is sort of disheartening.
And he's a pale imitation. No wonder this party is going down so badly, their practice squad is the starting lineup.