Quote: President Bush bypassed the Senate confirmation process and appointed Charles Pickering
President Bush made a recess appointment of Judge Pickering. This is allowed by the Constitution. It is, therefore, incrediably disingenuous of MoveOn (which might as well call itself "HateBush.Org") to suggest that an impropriety occurred.
Furthermore, had Senate Democrats discharged their duty to actually vote on Pickering, instead of letting his nomination languish in a procedural limbo, the issue would not have even come up.
Quote: Republican staffers on the Senate Judiciary Committee repeatedly accessed computer files belonging to Democratic members over the course of the year, stealing strategic memos and leaking them to conservative media outlets
We now come to the moment where we examine that persistent liberal double standard. A Democrat who had done this would be a "heroic whistle blower."
Furthermore, from what I've read, these memos were "stolen" when Democrat staffers stored them on publicly accessible networks, even though they should have known, and were informed, that these networks were viewable by the Republicans.
It would be pretty difficult, I would expect, to prosecute someone for "hacking" simply for gaining access to documents by clicking on a publicly accessible folder on one's own computer. If that's "hacking," I guess we're all "hacking" Rob's board right now.
So why the strum and drang?
In fact, this whole hue and crew over the accessed memos is simply an attempt by Democrats to draw attention from what the memos said.
The real scandal is not about who got what memos how, but their content. They demonstrated clearly that Judiciary Democrats were the pawns of special interest groups. FOr example, the memo held that Sixth Circuit judges needed to be delayed to aid the case for racial quotas at the University of Michigan.
They also demonstrated that Democrats were attacking people because of their race: According to the memos, Miguel Estrada was a target because "he is Latino." Can you imagine anyone seriously complaining about how the memos were obtained if it was Republican memo discussing a minority candidate in this manner?
The failure, of MoveOn and their acolytes, to recognize or acknowledge this is hardly evidence that liberals don't hate the President, but may be evidence that they do.
