Democrats Not Sure About Judge Compromise

Two weeks ago conservatives were mad as hell about the compromise on judicial filibusters and liberals
were smug. Now liberals are not so sure. In the Washington Post liberals are expressing their shock
about Janice Rogers Brown, “one of the most extreme nominees” ever to come before the Senate. In
the debate on Brown’s nomination on the floor of the Senate, according to reporter
Charles Babington:

Democrats recited a litany of Brown’s controversial statements,
including several from a 2000 speech titled "Fifty Ways to Lose Your Freedom."
She said senior citizens "blithely cannibalize their grandchildren because they have a
right to get as much`free’ stuff as the political system will permit them to extract."
Elsewhere, Brown has said: "Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society
disintegrates. . . . When government advances . . . freedom is imperiled, civilization itself [is]
jeopardized."

Gee fellas, what’s the problem? You been in a liberal echo-chamber all these years? Actually, we
can understand the liberal outrage. The quotes from Brown are “gaffes,” true
statements that liberals, like aging drama queens, have forbidden anyone to articulate in their presence.
“Omigod, I can’t believe I just heard that?”