3 Dems move Right


The Senate Judiciary Committee approves Roberts. And 3 Democrats on the panel vote Yea. Feingold and Leahy surprise everyone with a vote for Roberts and conservatives are still complaining that it was partisan. Sigh.

Liberal groups that had opposed Roberts expressed disappointment with the committee vote, with Ralph Neas, president of People for the American Way, singling out Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis.

He said the Wisconsin Democrat was the only member of his party on the committee who voted in favor of both John Ashcroft to become Mr. Bush's first attorney general and now Roberts. Neas said that Feingold's vote was a "tremendous mistake and a tremendous disappointment."

But Leonard Leo of the conservative Federalist Society said the fact that only three of eight committee Democrats supported Roberts was evidence of partisanship. "We're supposed to think the Democrats are being magnanimous? Give me a break," Leo said.

Give me a break?!? What does this radical wingnut want? Fascism on a platter, Stat!! Roberts, if anything will maintain the conservative slant of the Court, that has been chipping away at the stone for decades. Leo should be happy. But, it doesn't matter, because, like Grover Norquist, he wants liberalism and democracy dead...