Sunday, January 12, 2003

The Democrats have started the new congressional session by launching a lynching party. (How embarrassing is it these days to be a Democrat?) In fact this is the second lynch party organized by the Democrats for the same victim, Judge Charles Pickering whom the Preisdent (sic) has nominated to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Last session, after smearing Pickering in a manner that would make Joe McCarthy blush, the Democrats voted in lock step to keep his nomination from coming to the Senate floor. Leading the lynch party was New York Senator Charles Schumer who has promised to filibuster the Pickering nomination and who said, "To renominate Charles Pickering Sr. who...is probably best known for intervening on behalf of a convicted cross-burner, shows unfortunately that Richard Nixon's Southern strategy is still alive and well in the White House."