Oh, For A Senator Neumayr

While Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee continue to hide under their desks while their minority party "colleagues" hold forth against Chief Justice-designate John Roberts like a war crimes tribunal, one is tempted to let one's mind wander in the direction of fantasizing what would happen if even one GOPer would launch into rhetoric like the following:

*[W]hat's the high-minded reason for justices bowing before the super duper precedent of Roe v. Wade? Apparently, that Americans have come to bank on abortion as secondary contraception when they get into a jam. As Specter explained, Americans craft their "reproductive" strategies and lifestyles around the existence of abortion.

Does this mean injustices incorporated into the culture can't be touched, according to the Senators? No, just the injustices they and their constituents happen to like and find handy....

*While the great moralists of the Senate aren't worried that their "living" Constitution excludes unborn children from consideration by the states, they are concerned that Roberts might cut wartime thugs off from it. After Specter had concluded his discussion of the proper judicial reverence due abortion, Senator Leahy probed Roberts on his commitment to stopping abuse in wartime.

The Bill of Rights is very important to Leahy, as he hails from Vermont, a state which he proudly related wouldn't join the Union until the Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution. This was a novel point for an aggressive secularist like Leahy to make, since Vermont used the First Amendment, which it clearly interpreted as an endorsement of public religion at the state level, to administer an oath for public office that read: "I do believe in one God, the Creator and Governor of the Universe, the rewarder of the good and the punisher of the wicked. And I do acknowledge the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be given by divine inspiration and own and profess the Protestant religion."...

*Even more outrageous was the implied questions in the hectoring from Kennedy: Are you as good and enlightened as I am? Are you a champion of women and opponent of discrimination and all bad things like I am? Here we had a bloated boor who's endangered women in a very real way chastising an unimpeachable gentleman for failing to protect women. Who would parents want their daughters to go work for? Ted Kennedy or John Roberts?

I left out Neumayr's undressing of Senator Hairplugs since he's gotten so much attention already. But it's just as delectable.

Judiciary 'Pubbies may as well get into this fight, because it isn't going to get any less nasty with the next SCOTUS nominee, and this week's free-flowing crapola is redundant proof that there's no "comity" to be had in a U.S. Senate that has people like Leahy, Kennedy, Durbin, Schumer, Biden, et al in its number.

Issue polling consistently shows a large majority of Americans on the Republicans' side on judicial issues and the proper role of the courts. It's long past time the latter start acting like it.

Otherwise, their majority status is the ultimate political dunsel - an entity that serves no useful purpose.