Amanda’s shitlist
Now has the names on it of the 22 Democratic senators whovoted to confirm John Roberts:
There are names of some Senators on the shitlist that I do have respect for so this is painful to me. Okay, I can (sort of) see why you have to pretend that he’s telling the truth when Roberts lied through his teeth about abortion rights. And I suppose some of them bought the idea that a yea vote for Roberts would give them political power to nay vote the next wingnut Bush nominates. But I don’t buy that, because I think the entire charade of pretending that the President is anything but an underqualified nut who appoints underqualified nuts is silly at this point. Roberts was going to get confirmed–this was the time to take a symbolic stand and vote nay. That way they could split the difference and if Bush nominates a Klan member next or whatever crazy thing he plans to do, they could bust out the filibuster.