Cornyn vs Fact

This is yet another phony story from TAP. There have been dozens of GOP votes against various judge nominees during the Bush presidency. J. Leon Holmes alone had five "no" votes from Republicans in September, 2004 when he was confirmed 51-46 for the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Arkansas.
You owe Cornyn an apology for reprinting this crap. Here's something you may be slow catching on to: a lot of these national liberal blogs simply lie at will.

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This is yet another phony story from TAP. There have been dozens of GOP votes against various judge nominees during the Bush presidency. J. Leon Holmes alone had five "no" votes from Republicans in September, 2004 when he was confirmed 51-46 for the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Arkansas.
You owe Cornyn an apology for reprinting this crap. Here's something you may be slow catching on to: a lot of these national liberal blogs simply lie at will.

Re: lying at will ...

It seems that both TAP and you may have neglected a few D votes against Clinton nominees:

... and that's just looking through 3 sessions' worth of votes. Lemme know when you finish penning that apology to TAP, now. The day I apologize for anything to someone who rationalizes the murder of others will likely be a cold day in hell.

Cornyn looks exactly like he walked straight out of central casting to play the part of a U.S. Senator. They used to say such things about Harding and the Presidency. Harding looked the part. Yet, I take it from your post and comments that Cornyn was one of the extreme right wing Republicans who said that the right ought to use violence and perhaps even murder against the "heathen pagans" opposing Bush's God-fearing judicial nominees. Is that the case? There are so many right wing extremists in the Republican Party and they make so many demagogic utterances that I lose track.

It is rather like trying to keep track of the irresponsible utterances of Howard Dean, although Dean has yet to urge murder and mayhem.

One thing that bothers me a great deal these days is the degree to which McCarthyism has come to permeate American politics. During the Army-McCarthy hearings the coup de grace came when the Boston Brahmin lawyer Joseph Welch rhetorically asked "Tail Gunner Joe" if at long last, he had no sense of decency or shame. I am paraphrasing. In any case, many leaders and militants within the right wing of the Republican Party and the left wing of the Democratic Party really have no sense of shame.

A google search shows that I really can't keep track of all this demagoguery. I take it that Cornyn essentially implied that he could understand why people might want to kill liberal activist judges. I take it this took place just after the murder of at least one judge. From my google search, I guess Congressman DeLay jumped on the bandwagon said some equally inflammatory things.

Greg -- Speaking of demagoguery, I am surprised you have not commented on some of Dean's latest "gaffes." Imagine Kossacks defending Dean's statements that the "Republican Party is a White Christian Party" and that "Many Republicans have never held real jobs." This hardly seems like an effective way to win over Red State voters and people of faith.

The Cornyn statement about judges was leaped upon by the Demo smear machine because Cornyn has proved himself extremely effective in little more than two years in the Senate. No freshman Senator is more influential. He's a star -- that's why he's being mentioned for the Supreme Court -- and they want to stop him now. He almost never makes mistakes...in fact, I'll bet you can't name another he made in the Senate race or in the Senate.
So keep belaboring the Judges remark. It's increasingly obvious you have little else on him.
As for McCathyism, the only example I've seen lately is from Harry Reid. On the Senate floor, he said he'd heard there was something in judicial nominee Henry Saad's FBI file that creates "a problem." But that file is locked away, Reid couldn't see it, Senators are prohibited from talking about it, and even Saad himself doesn't know what's in it. So nobody can defend this smear. Can you think of a more blatant example of McCarthyism?

Buck -- You missed my point. I am against McCarthyism whether it originates on the far right or on the far left. What troubles me about the left is that it seeks to emulate the demagoguery and McCarthyism of the right. With regard to the statement by Reid, I know nothing about it, so will not comment. With regard to Cornyn, I should think his hopelessly irresponsible statement about judges would meet his lifetime quota for demagoguery and McCarthyism. If Liberald had made such a statement about Conservative office holders, the Conservatives would be out to lynch them, at least metaphorically speaking. Since Greg knows much more about Cornyn than do I, I think that I will let him comment on your statement that Cornyn has achieved "greatness."

Buck,

Do I really NEED anything more than an out-of-touch tacit plea of understanding for murderers?

Scoop,

Dean take now posted. Of all the quips, the only one that I think seriously ranks as a gaffe is the "White Christian" one. It implies that we stand in stark contrast to that as a party, while at the same time, just reinforces a parallel uniformity on our side. But then again, this is a DNC chair we're talking about ... not an actual elected official. If Howard Dean oversees the DNC while winning elections, I hardly think it matters that he advocates anything short of the breeding of cats with goats.

BTW, Buck ... I'm tempted to think of how Nuremberg might have gone down if played by the rules you offer:

"Your honor, I know this whole genocide thing looks bad, but seriously ... what else do our accusers have on us?"

I know, I know ... an over-the-top analogy. But seriously ... what else do you have on me?