Sympathy (like crocodile tears) for conservative, libertarian and die-hard GOP blathermouths & editorialists condemned to shoveling the same old same old again and again (no matter how discredited by logic or events) in their never-ending battle to persuade a majority to vote against their own best interests.

Saturday, February 09, 2002

 

Here's a "Dung Beetle" doing his own rolling and collecting...a variation on the usual techniques.
Appeals Court Nominee Faces Trouble Over Cross-Burning Case The judge acknowledged that he asked local lawyers, including those who appeared before him, to write letters to the Senate in support of his nomination. The judge said he collected the letters in his chambers and faxed them to Washington. "I didn't tell them what to say," Pickering said when asked about the letters during a contentious hearing Thursday before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

"It's quite an impressive outpouring of support," said Sen. Russell D. Feingold (D-Wis.).

But it "creates an appearance of coercion," he added, to have a powerful trial judge solicit support from local lawyers.
(((((( Coercion? My goodness a judge wouldn't coerce behavior would he? ))))))
LAT=http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000009893feb08.story?coll=la%2Dnews%2Da%5Fsection
KWAP= Rabid ideologues nominated to court by Bush, Burning a cross is just exercising freedom of speech, fox in the chicken coop,
send him back to the swamp, wingnut judicial appointments, Trent Lott.