EJ Dionne Gets It. Why don't our Blue State Democratic Senators not wholly owned by the DLC and their own craven cowardice?
If senators simply vote "yes" on Roberts, they will be conceding to the executive branch huge power to control what information the public gets and doesn't get about nominees to life positions. The administration has stubbornly refused to release a share of Roberts's writings as deputy solicitor general. This is a dare to the Senate, and the administration is assuming it will wimp out. A "yes" on Roberts would be a craven abdication of power to the executive branch.
Karl Rove and the fascist Ultra-Nixonian elements in the republican party explicitly are daring the Senate Democrats to cave, or they will beat the shit out of them or so they think. Well, the American Public is not as stupid as most of these supposedly "intelligent" Senators. The American Public is starting to break the code on the crookedness and corruption of the republican party in every aspect of their governance, and it's not such a stretch to believe that it extends to the Courts, widely perceived in America to be Fair and Impartial.
Fuck that the republicans say, we'll own them too, we double-dog dare you to do anything about it. We're stealing those too, so that even if we lose Congress and Presidency one day we'll own the courts for decades and fuck with you from our political graves. Nyahhh Nyahh.
