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Miguel Estrada: The Victim of a Political Hate Crime
By Matt Margolis | September 4, 2003
Twenty-eight months and seven partisan filibusters later, Miguel Estrada has thrown in the towel, withdrawing his name from consideration for a seat on the federal bench.
This is a sad end to the shameful war the liberals in the Senate have waged against their worst enemy: a conservative minority.
President Bush issued the following statement:
It is with regret that, at the request of Miguel Estrada, I have today withdrawn his nomination to the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. I understand and respect his decision, and wish Mr. Estrada and his family the best.
Mr. Estrada received disgraceful treatment at the hands of 45 United States Senators during the more than two years his nomination was pending. Despite his superb qualifications and the wide bipartisan support for his nomination, these Democrat Senators repeatedly blocked an up-or-down vote that would have led to Mr. Estrada’s confirmation. The treatment of this fine man is an unfortunate chapter in the Senate’s history.
I commend Bush for saying it straight up. The Democrat senators who chose to block a simple up-or-down vote are spineless demagogues
And what did the Democrats do in reaction to this? They blamed the White House.
Senator Charles Schumer, Democrat of New York said, “Mr. Estrada is an unfortunate victim of a White House process of not cooperating with the Senate and stonewalling the appointment of judges.”
Pardon me? Who was filibustering for over two years? Who didn’t give an overly qualified nominee a chance for an up-and-down vote?
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said, “The Democrat’s character assassination of Miguel Estrada was a political hate crime… We have witnessed the Democrats at their ugliest.”
So now Texas Supreme Court judge Priscilla Owen will be on the front lines of the Democrats bastardization of democracy. Democrats have said that she is an “anti-abortion and pro-business judicial activist whose opinions and rulings are overly influenced by her personal beliefs.”
Now, what that really means is that she’s a conservative woman, and the Democrats can’t stand a conservative woman, who is pro-life nonetheless, being confirmed… So what do they do? With the Republicans holding only a slim majority in the Senate, and at least 60 votes to end a filibuster, the Democrats has successfully found a way to stall the judicial nomination process, at the expense of our legal system’s efficiency.
Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor, is subject to the same disgraceful tactics of the Democrats mainly for being pro-life.
California judge Carolyn Kuhl, still awaits confirmation after it was postponed because “Democratic opponents suggested her record was too far to the right on privacy, civil rights and abortion.”
Judge Charles Pickering, has also seen his confirmation blocked for “being too conservative.”
The common crime: conservatism.
The common enemy: Democrats.
The common victims: America and democracy.
Estrada’s bowing out should signal to Republicans that they need to scale up their efforts to counter the despicable behavior of Senate Democrats. This is not the time for Bush to nominate less conservative judges. It’s time for Bush to put his cowboy hat on and demand the Democrats vote to confirm his nominees and fill the judicial vacancies.
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September 5th, 2003 at 8:18 am
Of the almost 150 judges nominated, 4 have been objected to. The rest have gone through.
The GOP blocked 54 of Clinton’s nominees.
What does this tell you?
September 5th, 2003 at 10:00 am
It tells me that they’re scared of what kind of image that these 4 could give the votes, eh, I mean … people that they once had grasped firmly in there palms.
September 5th, 2003 at 11:09 am
But Estrada was in line to be the highest ranking Hispanic/Latino judge…
September 5th, 2003 at 11:20 am
All of a sudden, it seems you’ve all embraced identity politics. I don’t believe in identity politics - why do you?
September 5th, 2003 at 7:29 pm
The old “They did it, so we can do it” excuse doesn’t quite cut it.
I refer you to the study, “Counting the Cloture Votes: Analyzing Senators’ Support for Judicial Nomination Filibusters” (PDF) or here.
The findings:
September 5th, 2003 at 11:07 pm
If the rules didn’t change when the Senate changed hands, those stats would look far different. Can you run them again, this time excluding all filibusters that never would have occoured if the Republican majority had merely maintained the blue-slip status quo? Of course not. You’re attached to the talking points, not the facts.
September 9th, 2003 at 8:36 am
Asshattery rule # 18: Keep changing your name while posting on the same thread so as to convince your opponent that you have somebody agreeing with you.
September 9th, 2003 at 10:30 am
Moonbat rule #5: When you can’t win the argument, hack at the opposition.
September 9th, 2003 at 12:53 pm
TruthInMedia/Hipocrite,
You are well aware of the fact that using multiple aliases is against the rules of this blog. Your motives are justifiably in question, and calling attention to that is by no means “hacking the opposition.”
Chose an alias and stick with it.
September 9th, 2003 at 2:35 pm
My computer at home has the other one set as the default. I’ll certainly try to remember to change it. At no point have I hidden my identy, unlike Dr. Bimbu, who is using an invalid email address, also against the rules, and ignored - unlike my accidental infraction, which duped no one.
Hipocrite.
September 9th, 2003 at 11:46 pm
TruthInMedia,
It is not our responsibility to check up on everyone. Certain forms of deception are more obvious than others. Changing aliases while using the same e-mail address is more visible than a potentially phoney e-mail address.
Violations are not ignored… however, somethings may go unnoticed for a period of time.
September 18th, 2003 at 5:03 pm
I always think of Matt Margolis as a wannabee Mallard Fillmore.
September 26th, 2003 at 12:55 pm
UY, I think you’re a idiot. I keep waiting for you try to make a valid point or argument in my blog. However, in over 170 comments you’ve made here, I find absolutely no evidence of ability for rational thought.
September 26th, 2003 at 5:00 pm
Look harder, see from where I’m sitting I have made plenty of valid comments. So the problem must be on your end.
September 26th, 2003 at 5:02 pm
I’ve read them all. The verdict stands.
September 26th, 2003 at 10:32 pm
Like I said the problem is your perception, not my comments.
October 30th, 2003 at 10:35 am
While I agree he shouldn’t be changing aliases all the time, he raised a good point you didn’t answer. Your statistics are faulty because they measure the ratio of democratic nominees with republican minorities to republican nominees with democratic minorities, but fail to divide out by the ratio of years where the situation occured:other years. Thus you could be overinflating either side. I’m not sure if you are, but you dismissed him with an with just a comment on his competence, which we all know doesn’t prove anything. The greatest fool in the world can claim the sun is shining, and it doesn’t make it night.
October 30th, 2003 at 12:13 pm
It’s funny how conservatives’ statistics are always “faulty”… it’s sad that’s the best liberals can come up with.
October 30th, 2003 at 11:51 pm
Sigh. This is so depressing. It’s the McCarthy era all over again. Trumped up “enemies” under every bush. At least the truth is finally starting to come out. This neo conservative bunch is the most dangerous element ever to gain control over our government. The rest of the world is incredulous over our actions. I’m so glad that most people are starting to wise up to this scam.
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