Now that Preznit Avoids Accountability has sent Justice French Fry on to replace the still-dead Guillermo Rehnco, the passive-for-too-long Senate Democrats are finally showing a small, almost nano-vetebral growth.

In 1990, the Federal Communications Commission asked the first Bush administration to defend a policy aimed at encouraging more minority ownership of broadcast stations. As the number two man in the solicitor general's office, John G. Roberts Jr. played a critical role in the government's decision to reject the request, according to documents that came to light yesterday.
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The White House, however, has refused to turn over memos and other documents Roberts wrote during that time frame, contending it would have a chilling effect on the advice the government receives from its lawyers. Meanwhile, Roberts has argued that the positions he took on behalf of the government were not necessarily his own.
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But with Republicans in firm control of the Senate and Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) opposed to the request, all Democrats can do is urge the White House to reconsider.

There are serious racial issues coming out of the remnants of the Crescent City and indeed all up and down the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Now is not the time to get steamrollered once again by a politician whose political life support includes orchestrated attacks on the storm victims, some of the poorest Americans who were and are the least able to defend themselves.

Roberts is that genial, whitebread under-the-radar rascist, some of whose 'best friends are colored', whose tickets have been punched by loyal service to his master, Beloved Leader. His concern for people of color is displayed in his adherence to his party's doctrince of benign neglect for anyone not White, Wealthy and Worldly, that is to say his concern is only that his social order not be upset by those who might need assistance from the Federal Government at any point in their lives if they are not involved in Federal Corporate Welfare.

Hold him or filibuster him. It doesn't matter a whit to me. If the 1600 Crew refuses to produce every single document asked for in a timely manner, then allowing Roberts on the court because of some allegiance a mythical "collegiality" is akin to handing the country over to the forces of darkness for the next three or more decades. And short of impeaching him later, crying about shoulda-coulda-woulda years from now won't do a damn thing other than waste valuable oxygen my kids might need to breath.