'Most of Bush's nominees are Nazis' — those memos Patrick Leahy griped about were damning to the Democrats

'Most of Bush's nominees are Nazis' — those memos Patrick Leahy griped about were damning to the Democrats
"...Here's what happened: After Sen. Jim Jeffords switched from Republican to Democrat in 2001, he flipped the Senate in the process.
...The old story does, however, shed light on how Democrats handle Republican judicial nominees.

• ' Most of Clinton's nominees were impeachable. ... most of Bush's nominees are Nazis.'

One Judiciary Committee memo ( memorialized in the Congressional Record) suggested making an example out of a Bush nominee — letting them through, but only after brutally lambasting them.
It had some colorful language.
It granted that Bill Clinton's controversial nominees were "impeachable," but asserted that "most of Bush's nominees are Nazis."

• Timing abortion fights for before the elections

Michael McConnell was a Bush nominee eventually confirmed by voice vote.
...That is, to fight a losing fight over a clearly qualified judge in order to rile up the abortion lobby before the election.

• ' [E]specially dangerous, because ... he is Latino'

The Dems' biggest fight in Bush's first term was over the nomination of Miguel Estrada...
A staffer for Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., wrote to a memo saying liberal groups had "identified Miguel Estrada (D.C. Circuit) as especially dangerous, because he has a minimal paper trail, he is Latino, and the White House seems to be grooming him for a Supreme Court appointment."
And so they did torpedo Estrada, demanding his privileged memos as solicitor general as a condition for consideration.
This is how Democrats' racial politics work — they train particular hatred on minorities and women who think independently of them and hold conservative views..."
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