[Cicero]

"Cragg Hines is a Washington, D.C. based political opinion columnist. He is currently employed by the Houston Chronicle. Hines is generally regarded to write from a liberal political perspective.

"Hines has been employed at the Chronicle since 1972 and served as the paper's Washington bureau chief for almost two decades. He was previously a writer for United Press International.

"Hines is noted for his hard hitting and sometimes acerbic writing style."

--Wikepedia

[neodad]

The White House seems confident that Senate Democrats are so cowed that Bush can nominate virtually anyone to these important courts, no matter how egregious the record

All your judges are belonging to us.

[conservative physics]

Sounds like another home run for Bush.

It's got to bite to be a liberal these days.

[coconutt2000]

Like a lot of conservatives, I'm often surprised to discover that I'm a racist, white, protestant male.

(It is a real shock to discover that I'm not white. I wonder what else those liberals have got wrong.)

[bybybill]

I`m confused, what`s the problem with this appointment? Guy sounds pretty good to me.

[dead]

The White House seems confident that Senate Democrats are so cowed that Bush can nominate virtually anyone to these important courts, no matter how egregious the record.

[Zeppo]

Also with Lott, Wallace worked to require discriminatory intent — not effect — be proved in voting rights cases.

I'm beginning to like and respect this guy already. Laws that look at disparate effect and ignore intent are undemocratic abominations that are intended to assure specific, racially-mandated outcomes in total defiance of fairness and equal rights.

[Numbers Guy]

Later in the 1980s, as a member of the board of the Legal Services Corp., Wallace attempted to gut the agency.

Good. The Legal Services Corporation was a taxpayer-funded leftist playground prior to the 1980s reforms. This guy knows that, he's just pathetically spinning to make things sound as bad as possible.

By the way, no Republican would be pushing a "white-friendly" redistricting plan in any state. One of the dirty little secrets of the Voting Rights Act is that the mandated majority-minority districts concentrate Democratic votes and lead to more Republican districts. Republicans always support the majority-minority redistricting proposals because it helps them a lot and hurts Dems. Hines is definitely lying about that one.

[nwrep]

Bush totally rocks on Judges. He is even better than Reagan!!

[BobS]

What funeral? I remember only a race-baiting event ala NAACP.

[de Buillion]

"Wallace has been in the Republican pipeline a long time. Bush's father considered him for a 5th Circuit job in 1992."

He's really being put in the 5th now for OJT for the next SCOTUS vacancy.

[jokar]

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