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Here we see the Democrats’ real motive. Although partisan politics have influenced judicial nominations before, Daschle??s Democratic leadership is especially determined to exclude any judges whose ideology differs from their own. Senate Democrats defend themselves by noting that 40 of President Bush’s 92 judicial nominees have been approved (not itself a very encouraging number), but they neglect to mention that the majority of these approvals were of nominees to lower-level district court positions. According to the Wall Street Journal, of Bush’s 29 appeals court nominees, only a paltry...
...real outrage of Pickering’s defeat, however, is not Daschle??s special brand of partisan uncooperativeness. Rather, it is the fundamentally antidemocratic tactics of Daschle??s leadership. I say “antidemocratic” because if Pickering’s nomination hadn’t died in committee, it likely would have been approved in a Senate floor vote, with as many as three Democratic Senators willing to break party ranks and support Pickering. Instead, the wiles of 10 senators managed to keep the democratically elected body invested with Constitutional authority to approve...
Ultimately, Daschle??s shenanigans will backfire, as Trent Lott’s planned retaliation demonstrates. While such nomination wars are not the behavior we hope for from our senators, it is worth remembering who started the fight. Lott is only meeting Daschle on his own childish terms...
...Second, Daschle??s concern that we’re somehow forgetting about al Qaeda is similarly misguided. Right now, 160 U.S. Special Forces troops are training local soldiers in the Basilan island jungle of the Philippines to combat a Muslim rebel group—Abu Sayyaf—that has kidnapped an American missionary couple. Abu Sayyaf is part of the Southeast Asian wing of al Qaeda. By disabling Abu Sayyaf’s training camps and eradicating their power base in the southern Philippines, U.S. troops are preventing the growth of al Qaeda in the Pacific...
...contrast to Daschle??s ranting, Blair’s weekend comments evinced a global pragmatism that is sorely needed among liberal Democrats in Congress. “Iraq is in breach of all conditions of weapons inspectors,” he said. “We know they are trying to accumulate weapons of mass destruction. We know Saddam has used them against his own people.” To emphasize the necessity of forceful, well-planned action, Blair compared the current Iraqi situation to that of Afghanistan in the 1990s: “For ten years, Afghanistan...