Pete Domenici: “This editorial continues: Feminist Majority President Eleanor Smeal, for one, doesn't need any more information about…”

“This editorial continues: Feminist Majority President Eleanor Smeal, for one, doesn't need any more information about Estrada to know that in blocking him, "the Democratic leadership is giving voice to its massive base of labor, civil rights, women's rights, disability rights, environmental, gay and lesbian rights groups." Oh, then this is about constituent politics. Then there was another editorial in a New Mexico paper, the paper is a rather liberal newspaper, the Santa Fe New Mexican. The Santa Fe New Mexican editorial is entitled: "Estrada Tosses Towel; Pyrrhic Win For Dems." So Senate Democrats got what they wanted--or avoided what they didn't want: Miguel Estrada has asked President Bush to withdraw his nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals. . . . The 41-year-old Honduran immigrant, who led his law class at Harvard, was a vastly better choice for the judiciary than any number of Democrats who slid onto the federal bench during the early Clinton presidency. Now, with a GOP president and a bare Republican majority in the Senate, the Dems still are able to stymie the appointment of conservative judges reflecting the apparent wishes of the American electorate: There are too few Republican senators-- or principled Democrat ones--to apply cloture to threatened filibusters over the confirmation of Estrada and other qualified appointees.”