Reply #40: Yes, but the fight means nothing [View All]

[lastliberalintexas]

once the actual votes are tallied. Great, the Dems stood up and SAID that Thomas wasn't qualified and shouldn't be confirmed- and then many of them turned around and voted to do so anyway. Words are nice, but actions can kill.


I understand how frustrating it is to think about even more RWers on the courts. I live and practice in a Dem area of Texas (even if not liberal), and yet we have to face 2 new appointments to the bench from Shrub. They are very pro-defense, very much in the corner of Corporate America, rather young for federal judges- and should never have been confirmed! One of them was actually confirmed while we still controlled the Senate, which is one of the reasons I remain so angry with our party.

I simply expect to see something more from our Dem party leaders about protecting the courts than mere platitudes. Like actually blocking more judges than are confirmed, like actually making the fight public so that people can see the nuts that the repubs are trying to appoint, like actually standing up and being counted when it matters. Otherwise, as I said in my previous post, nothing will change since we will continue to confirm the repubs' choices.