This is rich:
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., the chairman of the [Senate Judiciary] panel, said it’s a double-standard for Republicans to criticize a nominee with liberal views, since GOP presidents have traditionally nominated conservative activists for the federal bench.
Leahy is about one-quarter right. GOP presidents have nominated conservatives to the federal bench (or attempted to do so). And Leahy quietly acquiesced in those nominations, right?
Er, not quite. Leahy led the fight against confirmation of a long list of Bush nominees, holding some of them up with filibusters lasting two years. Remember Priscilla Owen, Janice Rogers Brown, Miguel Estrada, William Pryor, Charles Pickering, to name just a few? Leahy was not shy about criticizing those nominees.
Which goes to show that the charge of hypocrisy is all too easy to make and ultimately not worth much.
But when you think about it, what else can a hyper-partisan like Leahy say?
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