The MSM is at it again, towing the left wing line to the tee and focusing their attack on the ranking Republican of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala. This time though it is not only the usual national media networks it is also finding it’s way into the local newspaper editorials.
An op-ed published in The Anniston (Ala.) Star on May 28 by Ari Rabin-Havt, the managing director of the left-wing Media Matters Action Network, attacked the new ranking Republican of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala. He alleged that if Sessions and other Senate Republicans didn’t commit to taking a filibuster off the table for Sotomayor’s confirmation, they would be guilty of hypocrisy.
The following are quotes from the article:
“However, many conservatives, in a desperate attempt to reclaim relevance, are already calling on Senate Republicans to filibuster Obama’s highly qualified pick,” Rabin-Havt wrote. “Not only would this be one of the greatest acts of hypocrisy in the 220-year history of the Senate, it would be an admission by Republicans that their actions four years ago were nothing more than a political stunt.”
“If Sessions supports a filibuster on Sotomayor’s nomination, he will make it undeniably clear that he is happy to use the Constitution as a political prop,” Rabin-Havt wrote. “We will be made acutely aware that he sees our founding documents as trivial things, to be revered when they are useful and cast aside when the political winds change direction. Such cynicism is far more deplorable than plain hypocrisy.”
“We will learn a lot about Sessions’ character in the coming weeks. Does he believe the Constitution has been amended in the last four years?” Rabin-Havt wrote. “Will he prove to be a hypocrite whose positions are dictated by the political landscape, or a lapdog to the most extreme elements of the Republican Party? Or will he remain consistent in his belief that every nominee deserves an ‘up or down vote?’”
The fact that the media is trying to make the case that the GOP are hypocrites if they were to even talk of a filibuster is funny at best, where were all of the stories expressing concerns about the democrats threats to filibuster Alito? Where were the claims that the Democrats “viewed our founding documents as trivial things”, etc…?
The part of this story that is the most absurd has to be the fact that the current occupant of the oval office himself back in January 2006 said he would be in favor of filibustering President George W. Bush’s nominee Samuel Alito, before conceding “the effort would be futile” and criticizing his Democratic colleagues “for failing to persuade Americans to take notice of the court’s changing ideological face,” as Jeff Zeleny pointed out for the Chicago Tribune on Jan. 30, 2006.
Where are the MSM articles & news stories decrying Obama’s hypocrisy? They are nonexistent.
Where was the outrage from the media when Senate Democrats used a filibuster to prevent Miguel Estrada’s nomination from being given a final confirmation vote on the full Senate floor which was only the 2nd time in history that had been done (the 1st prevented an Assoc. Justice from being elevated to Chief Justice) and the 1st time in history that had ever been done to a Circuit Court of Appeals nominee? Again, they were nonexistent.
To top it all off:
Similar versions of Rabin-Havt’s op-ed appeared in other newspaper, with the names and the quotes changed - one attacking Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, in the May 27 Des Moines Register and another in the May 28 Wichita Eagle attacking Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan.
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