[Braak]

You'll note that the Dims have slashed and burned just about every judicial candidate in recent memory. They can't win by playing by the rules, so they try to re-write the rules.

[mware]

Hey Teddy why not have them ASK why Daschle sat in the appropiations bills for Homeland Security.

[cogitator]

Both Republicans and Democrats have politicized the judicial nominations process in recent years, resulting in what I think is a looming constitutional crisis.

Below is an obviously liberal opinion, but it shows that both sides are playing games with a vital process, and endangering our democratic society.

They Started It

Excerpt:

"If we deny Mr. Estrada the position on the D.C. Circuit, it would be to shut the door on the American dream of Hispanic Americans everywhere," Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said in January. Last year, Republican Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi said of the Democrats: "They don't want Miguel Estrada because he's Hispanic."

Never mind that eight of the 10 Hispanic appellate judges were appointed by Clinton. And never mind that Republicans had no problem blocking such Hispanic Clinton nominees as Enrique Moreno, Jorge Rangel and Christine Arguello."