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Senate Majority Leader Frist gave a speech today at the Heritage Foundation, about the confirmation process. The full text is here.

According to Tim Chapman, Frist said he has not had a Supreme Court short list delivered to him either formally or informally. Anyway, here's a brief excerpt from Frist's speech:

Let me read some of the comments made on the Senate floor just in the last six weeks.

Senator Barbara Boxer equated the values of one judicial nominee with the “kind of values which stand with a rapist….�?

Senator Chuck Schumer questioned the same nominee: “Does she want a theocracy? Does she want a dictatorship?�?

Senator Ted Kennedy characterized a group of judicial nominees as “anti-worker, anti-civil rights, anti-disability, anti-senior, anti-consumer, and anti-environment.�?

This is the sad state of the Senate’s judicial confirmation process.

Like I said, the full text is here.

And by the way, here's Senator Boxer's full sentence from June 8:

If it did not happen that we had this deal, we would still be using the filibuster on her, to protect the people of the United States of America from her kind of values which stand with a rapist, which stand with the tobacco companies, which stand with those who discriminate.