No One's Kicking Dirt On "Umpire" Roberts

Business Week ^ | September 13, 2005 | Lorraine Woellert

[Clintonfatigued]

Liberal critics of the fresh-faced Roberts, 50, and their conservative foes have been bombarding the airwaves and the press as they try to put their spin on a nominee who appears all but guaranteed to win confirmation to the high court. The full-frontal assault hasn't done much to sway Americans one way or another, but liberal groups intent on tripping up the nominee have instead suffered a few missteps of their own...

If the public miscues put the Left on the defensive, it showed in today's hearings. "Committee Democrats were much less acrimonious than I thought they would be, because a number of chits were used up by their Left-wing interest groups," says Leonard Leo, an informal adviser to the White House and a chief proponent of Roberts' confirmation. "The Left is in danger of overplaying its hand."

[Ditto]

They're just putting on a show of beating up on Judge Roberts so the left-wing special interests will continue to pour in the campaign contributions.

Bingo. That is what it is all about.

[Clintonfatigued]

"are they really going to beat up a black woman from the South?"

They already have once. They filibustered her and backed down only under the threat of losing the right to filibuster.

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