From Seattle's
JOEL CONNELLY
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER COLUMNIST
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...Judges are the chief remaining brake on one-party government, and efforts by the likes of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay to assert state power from the bedroom to the courtroom to the emergency room.
In this Washington, recent history points to the rank hypocrisy of what the right aims to do.
In the past three years, the U.S. Senate has confirmed 205 of Bush's nominations to the federal bench. Just 10 nominees have been held up by Senate Democrats.
Ninety-five percent of federal court seats are filled, making for the lowest vacancy rate in 13 years....
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Please read his article in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/connel...11_joel15.html
Where is this crisis of minority rule? What evidence is there that the filibuster in Democratic hands is pissing on the Constitution?
Only Tom "Chicken Little" DeLay says so.
I call him a hypocrite because it's true. I expect to have my serious charge answered because I could not let stand any such assault on my legitimacy, but DeLay revels in it.