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By AndrewHyman Posted in Fillibuster — Comments () / Email this page » / Leave a comment »

Today, the New York Times published an editorial stating as follows:

The Senate has confirmed the vast majority of President Bush's choices. But Democrats have rightly balked at . . . . Janice Rogers Brown, who has disparaged the New Deal as "our socialist revolution."

Calling something "socialist" is now an insult, according to the Times. Will wonders never cease?

Justice Brown's tiny remark about socialism was made in a speech to law students (not in a judicial opinion) years ago. The Times is now bothered by the mere suggestion that FDR's New Deal might have been the slightest bit "socialist." So much so that the Times wants anyone having that personal opinion to be kept off the federal bench at all costs, even if the U.S. Senate must be destroyed. Bravo to the Times for proving yet again that only their news is "fit to print."

Justice Brown is one of two nominees whom the Times cites as evidence that the filibustered nominees are all unacceptable. The other nominee smeared by the Times (in order to smear the rest of the nominees) is Bill Myers. But the Times neglects to mention what it knows about Myers that Cecil Andrus (Jimmy Carter's Secretary of the Interior who has endorsed Myers) doesn't know. Apparently, the Times thinks it would be appropriate to destroy the U.S. Senate merely because a Bush nominee fails to exceed the environmental standards of the Carter administration. Go figure.