You Can't Make This Stuff Up

# Tell your Senators to withhold their support for Robert's nomination until they have all the facts about his troubling record. [...] What we know about John Robert's record as Deputy Solicitor General and as a judge shows a troubling lack of concern for the fundamental civil and constitutional rights of all Americans. Americans deserve a justice who will protect our rights and freedoms. Serious questions must be addressed before Robert's nomination to the nation's highest court can be evaluated properly.

* It would be irresponsible to take a position on the nomination of Judge Roberts until his background is carefully reviewed, and until senators have a chance to question him at length. The Senate has a duty to scrutinize his background and to question him closely at his confirmation hearings about substantive areas of the law.

# Roberts suggested in a dissent that the Endangered Species Act was unconstitutional as applied to a California development case.

* He dissented in an Endangered Species Act case in a way that suggested he might hold an array of environmental laws, and other important federal protections, to be unconstitutional.

# Roberts urged the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade while arguing before the Court as Deputy Solicitor General

* As a lawyer in the first President Bush's administration, he helped write a brief arguing that Roe v. Wade should be overturned.

Astute readers will have deduced that these quotes ARE NOT FROM REPUBLICANS. Very good! Really astute readers will know that the first set of quotes is from a call to the troops email sent out this evening from Ralph Neas and People For The American Way, and the second set of quotes is from Wednesday's New York Times editorial.

I just don't understand why some people think the New York Times is reliably left wing, do you?