Former Democratic Chief Counsel: Ted Kennedy Disgraced HimselfIn my view (as a Democrat and former chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee), Senator Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., has disgraced himself and our party by misusing his position on the Senate Judiciary Committee to achieve self-serving partisan ends.
Kennedy was the architect of an unprecedented tactic: using filibusters to polarize the Senate along party lines thus denying the confirmation of qualified conservative judges. In Bush's first term the Senate Democrats used that tactic successfully against at least 10 nominees for judgeships on circuit courts.
Fortunately, Kennedy has failed in his partisan attempt to deny Judge Alito a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court.
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3 comments:
I can't understand what is that motivates the people of Mass. to vote for such a decrepit murderer.
Sure was happy to see Justice Alito in his black robe during the State of the Union address tonight.
"I can't understand what is that motivates the people of Mass. to vote for such a decrepit murderer."
They won't vote Republican, and no Democrat will run against him---He's so rich he would just outspend them.
We have the same problem where I live with Republican congressman James Sensenbrenner. The guy has been in congress since before I was born (I am 33). He has a warchest waiting for any Republican who would run against him, and the people of his district won't ever vote for a Democrat.
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