[Mb-civic] Democrats Are on the Wrong Battlefield - Colbert King - Washington Post

[William Swiggard]

Democrats Are on the Wrong Battlefield

By Colbert I. King
Saturday, July 23, 2005; Page A17

If John Roberts is confirmed as a Supreme Court justice, as now seems 
likely -- barring a shocker in his record or his past -- the reasons he 
made it won't be solely his résumé or the support of President Bush. The 
groundwork for Roberts's elevation to the high court -- and the 
likelihood of success for future Bush Supreme Court nominees -- was laid 
nearly three years ago in Georgia, Minnesota and Missouri, and last 
November in North Carolina, Georgia, South Carolina, Louisiana and South 
Dakota, when Republicans captured eight Democratic Senate seats.

Today, with Republicans holding 55 seats and having a good chance of 
landing the votes of some Democrats, the White House enters the Supreme 
Court fights in excellent shape. That thought alone has some in 
Washington seized with myocardial infarctions. But they have only 
themselves to blame.

<>Self-designated as a government in exile, Democratic Party activists 
have spent recent election cycles working their fannies off for that 
glorious day in January when they, as victors, could show the door to a 
vanquished Republican administration. For members of Washington's 
Democratic administration-in-waiting, winning the White House has been 
the only game in town. The presidency, in their view, is the instrument 
to make the way straight and easy for all who wage war against the 
heathen right.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/22/AR2005072201585.html 

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