Patrick Leahy actually said...

I have always found in Government that inertia is a lot easier than initiative, and we will work for initiative.

Leahy emphasizes the challenge of initiating change in government.

09/29/2009

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Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.

I reject the ideological litmus test, from either the right or the left, that some would apply to Supreme Court nominees.

I believe we are a better country for the fact that the path of excellence Elena Kagan has taken in her career is a path now open to both me...

Judicial activism now has a new guise--judicial activism to pull the country to the right.