Reply #13: Zeifman is a Republican in Dem clothing. Read where he attacks Ted Kennedey

[McCamy Taylor]

for attempting to block the Alito SCOTUS nomination:

http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/1/30/124842.shtml

In my view (as a Democrat and former chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee), Senator Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., has disgraced himself and our party by misusing his position on the Senate Judiciary Committee to achieve self-serving partisan ends.

Kennedy was the architect of an unprecedented tactic: using filibusters to polarize the Senate along party lines thus denying the confirmation of qualified conservative judges. In Bush's first term the Senate Democrats used that tactic successfully against at least 10 nominees for judgeships on circuit courts.

Fortunately, Kennedy has failed in his partisan attempt to deny Judge Alito a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court.

This occurred largely because Democratic Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska formed a non-partisan coalition of seven Democrats and seven Republicans to oppose filibusters, except in extraordinary cases.

No real Democrat would have anything but praise for Kennedy for trying to keep W.'s appointees off the SCOTUS.