More Sauce For The Jackass

Once again, here is a case of the Right getting into the partisan slugfest more than a little late, but getting into it nonetheless. This slugfest being the ubiquitous Democrat demand for every document even tangentially relating to John Roberts since the beginning of human civilization.

Conservative strategists are drafting a letter to Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee demanding the release of hundreds of internal memos detailing contacts between the lawmakers and liberal interest groups opposing John Roberts’s nomination to the Supreme Court.

By planning to press Democrats on the sensitive subject, conservatives seem to be pulling a page from the Democrats’ own political playbook. In the weeks leading up to the confirmation hearings, Senate Democrats have repeatedly called on the White House to give them memos Roberts penned while he was deputy solicitor general in President George H.W. Bush’s administration.

The need for drafting a letter comes from the unlikelihood that the Senate minority will again be so dunderheadedly negligent as to leave their internal memoranda on an openly accessible server. Which should give you an idea of the unlikelihood of conservative strategists ever getting copies of the Judiciary Committee Donks' marching orders from their extreme left puppeteers from the colorfully named Senate Sergeant-At-Arms, Bill Pickle.

But their logic is irrefutable:

“Given your demand that the Justice Department hand over John Roberts’ work documents during his time as deputy solicitor general, you should have no reservations about approving the release of the full complement of documents that make up all of the Memogate papers,” conservatives wrote in a draft of the letter, which will be circulated for signatures starting today....

In their letter to Democrats, conservatives plan to argue that the memos are not protected by attorney-client privilege, giving them a stronger claim to the documents, they assert, than the Democrats have to the solicitor general’s documents....

Conservatives said their case is bolstered by a memo sent by the Senate archivist to all Judiciary Committee staff members instructing them to preserve all documents and e-mails related to Roberts’s confirmation proceedings, including correspondence with outside groups. Conservatives cite the archivist’s message to support their claim that the internal memos held by the sergeant at arms should be made part of the public domain.

Frankly, I can't fathom what libs would have to lose by the disclosure of these memos. It's not as though it isn't common knowledge that Leahy & Co. are doing the partisan bidding of People for the Soviet Socialist Way, NARAL, et al. Proving that connection would be a pyrrhic victory for the good guys on a par with proving that armpits stink.

But you can bet that if Mr. Pickle decides to release any or all of the "Demo memos," the minority caucus will erupt in outraged fury as if collectively passing a porcupine.

And for my entertainment dollar, you can never get too much of that sort of thing.