Advice and Consent

Ted Kennedy weighs in this week with some unsolicited advice for the President as the country awaits the pick that will replace the retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor: "The-uh-President had-uh bettah float his nominee past the-uh minority pahty... the-uh Democrahts, and not just drive... I-uh, I mean dive... in to the-uh shallow but tricky waters of the cahnfirmation process with a uh-conservative young waitress, for exahmple, who very well might-uh be unacceptable and-uh find herself trahpped in the flooded Oldsmobile of senate gridlock while the uh-President is-uh forced to swim away to save himself. Has-uh anybody seen... where is my-uh drink?" With his usual eloquence, the most corpulent Kennedy has thrown down the gauntlet like it was three fingers of scotch.... From Sots to Sows. While Uncle Ted headed to happy hour in Hyannisport, 800 nags from NOW were gettin' nasty at their annual meeting in Nashville. The news of an imminent Bush nominee had the ugly-mean-or-otherwise-unpopular-girls-from-your-high-school snorting and stomping their hooves in pre-emptive disapproval of any SCOTUS-nominee they deem politically to the right of Rosie O'Donnell.... WARNING: The following question is graphic. What strange phenomena has a band of female-like gender-champions sharing a bed with Ted Kennedy? After all, the guy's a killer of at least one woman and a serial abuser of many more. But what's a little misogyny among friends? They all have common cause and a greater purpose. Abortion. It's all about abortion, all the time. While many reasonable people view "Roe v. Wade" as the ultimate example of judges legislating from the bench, over-reaching and enabling infanticide, other reasonable people make a case for the privacy, health and personal freedom of the mother. Regardless of your stance on the most divisive issue in America, this much is clear: Abortion... free, frequent, at any age, anyplace and in-your-face... has become the glue that binds the Democrats' Felini-cast of a coalition. Abortion has become the 'rats litmus test for all people in power, especially Supreme Court judges. Not competence, ideas, integrity or intellectual honesty. Abortion. And it's the single-biggest reason their lights are dimming. Because at the end of the day, if your party has no higher purpose than to protect an indecisive someone's "right" to drive a spike into a baby's skull when he's old enough to grab a pacifier, your party is over.... Some Advice for the Right. Abortion was around before Roe v. Wade and repeal ain't going to make it go away. It will only make it more dangerous. The best we can all hope for is to make it a small, sad-but-safe business.... Some advice for both ends. We don't want a Court to make stupid laws, drive political or moral agendas or grow the role of the government. That's the work of the arrogant pinheads "we the people" send to Washington. We want a Court full of people smart enough to read the Constitution, understand the words as written and keep the pinheads from taking our stuff and running our lives.