Should Republicans go ahead and add Supreme Court Justices to head off Democrats

What has Katrina got to do with it

David Limbaugh:

Nothing could better illustrate the wrongheadedness of modern liberalism toward the role of the courts in the American constitutional framework than the allusions to Hurricane Katrina by Senators Leahy, Kennedy and others in the context of the Roberts confirmation hearings.

What on earth does Katrina have to do with the role of the courts in general, with the Supreme Court in particular, or with Judge Roberts' judicial philosophy and fitness to serve on the Court? Absolutely nothing, of course, but that's not how Leahy and Kennedy see it.

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The senators' invocation of Katrina is obscene and manipulative. They are highly frustrated that the electorate won't endorse their policy prescriptions for the nation and therefore rely on the judicial branch, entirely inappropriately and unconstitutionally, to effect their agenda. Roberts will either agree to accept their bastardization of the Court's proper role -- which is inconceivable -- or they'll bully him, then vote to reject him -- which is guaranteed. But compared to the next nominee, Roberts will get off easy.

Roberts completely outclassed the legal light weights that make up the Democrat senators on the judiciary committee. Kennedy did not want his reading of long winded questions to be interupted by of all things an answer. Biden smirked and smiled and acted like he had a gotcha moment with his questions about the "Ginsberg Rule." Roberts, who is probably the best appellate lawyer in the country easily chopped and diced Biden's fateous questions. Whoever Bush picks for his next appointment, he would do well to get someone with appellate experience who is used to answering hostile questions whith ease like Roberts. It is fun to watch the liberal Democrats in the senate fumble in frustration as they read questions prepared by the interest groups or their staff. It is telling too, how disconcerted they are by having their long winded speech/questions interruped with an answer. Props to Sen. Specter far making sure Roberts got a chance to respond.

Even the NY Times agrees, no one laid a glove on him. And, this from the senior senator from New York:

Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, has been among the committee's most vocal skeptics about Judge Roberts in recent weeks, but even he allowed: "I have to say, I've been pleasantly surprised by some of your answers today," and at one point, consciously or not, declared: "You will be chief justice."

But the Dems will still go through the motions of opposition for their base.