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Similarly, instead of selecting moderate, consensus choices for confirmation to Federal judgeships, Bush has focused on ridding courts of “activism from the bench” by appointing his own dogmatic picks. Recently confirmed to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals after a protracted fight over Democrats?? use of the filibuster to block her confirmation, Judge Priscilla Owen typifies the kind of far-right judge Bush is willing to back. Her extremely conservative views on abortion and consumer rights are hard enough for an ideologically divided country to stomach. And her record...
...serious analysis of 2004 yields one inescapable conclusion: It is time for liberals to put national security back at the center of what it means to be a liberal. Because it is Democrats??who believe in public diplomacy, anti-proliferation, “nation-building”, and foreign aid—who are better equipped to win the war on terror, and have a rich history of tough-minded, idealistic foreign policy success...
...worse than this.” Kerry would hoist the reports about Americans killed in combat, and you could almost imagine Democratic campaign aides high-fiving each other as news of another insurgent attack hit the wires. Understandably, hoping that Iraq would fail gave many Americans the impression that Democrats??hope that Iraq would fail. Finally, Bush’s “pessimism” charge started to stick...
...inspire it. Since when are the Republicans—who have long despised the “nation-building,” foreign aid, and public diplomacy that are vital to the war on terror—the party of foreign policy idealism? And since when are the Democrats??who authored the Fourteen Points, the New Freedom, the Marshall Plan, and NATO—the party of dictator-coddling realists? And most recently: the party that fails to pound Bush for dragging his feet on Darfur nearly as much as we pounded him for rushing into Iraq...
Speaking at the Harvard College Democrats?? annual banquet Friday night, a politician who is touted as the possible first black governor of Alabama said that he expects to see a black president and a female president in our lifetime...