OK, so this ain't nothing new, but if our friend Al were a white guy, how, exactly, would the Republicans have been able to defend his nomination to the Attorney General position? Let's get real, folks. If the administration and its apologists can only defend this cagey, disrespectful, disingenuous, amoral man by accusing opponents to his appointment of racism, then, really, what defense is there? Is it so much that we ask for an Attorney General who has a spine, who has a moral compass, and who has some skill other than rationalizing even the most repugnant policies?
And who, exactly, is calling attention to his race? It's not just racism when you ascribe bad things to someone and attributing it to their race or ethnicity. We want to judge him as a man, not as a Hispanic man. No qualifiers.
On a related subject, I'm very pleased to see a few Democratic senators doubling back and pulling their heads out of their rears (if you'll pardon the mixing of metaphors). But what the Hell? I mean, really. Why couldn't y'all have done the right thing in the first place.
They haven't grown spines themselves, exactly, they're just borrowing them from the leftward-leaning bloggers and commentators who were pointing at those mealy-mouthed Quislings and spitting in disgust at their faithless behavior.
Don't get me wrong, I'm happy they finally seem to have headed in the right direction. But if this was their position all along, they sold us out the first time around for the sake of expediency. And if it isn't their position, they're just playing politics to try to keep their own party's faithful on their side.
So three cheers for Sens. Boxer and Kerry and a lukewarm 'yay' to the others. Who do you serve, guys, and who do you trust?
Wake up! You shouldn't need to be reminded of this, but this is America and there are things we're supposed to stand for. Wake the Hell up!
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