California Conservative

You’d think that Sen. Bluster, aka Sen. Kennedy, wouldn’t embarass himself in public anymore but that doesn’t appear to be happening anytime soon based on this Washington Post op-ed, aptly titled “Roberts, Alito Misled Us”. It’s obvious that Sen. Bluster is attempting to mislead the public with this op-ed:

Over that time, my colleagues and I have asked probing questions and listened attentively to substantive responses. Because we were able to learn a great deal about the nominees from those hearings, the Senate has rarely voted along party lines. I voted, for example, for three of President Ronald Reagan’s five Supreme Court nominees.

Sen. Kennedy has rarely asked probing questions or “listened attentively to substantive responses.” One thing that Kennedy’s been reliable on is his character assassination of every Supreme Court nominee that a Republican has presented, starting with John Paul Stevens, and includes Justices Souter, Thomas, Kennedy and O’Connor. That list doesn’t even include his most famous character assassination, that of Robert Bork.

Here’s what Sen. Kennedy said at Justice O’Connor’s confirmation hearings:

“It is offensive to suggest that a potential justice of the Supreme Court must pass some presumed test of judicial philosophy. It is even more offensive to suggest that a potential justice must pass the litmus test of any single-issue interest group. The disturbing tactics of division and distortion and discrimination practiced by the extremists of the new right have no place in these hearings and no place in the nation’s democracy.” — Senator Kennedy, during Sandra Day O’Connor’s 1981 confirmation hearings

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