And so it begins.Con…

And so it begins.

Concluding it was time to act, the Republican-controlled Senate began debating one of President Bush’s most contested judicial nominations Wednesday in a showdown over whether the White House can place like-minded judges on the federal bench over the objection of minority Democrats.

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., called the Democratic blockade of seven Bush U.S. Appeals Court nominees “radical,” and said one of those judges, Texas judge Priscilla Owen, should be confirmed despite Democratic accusations that she is a “judicial activist” who pursues an ideological agenda.

“Vote for the nominee. Vote against the nominee,” Frist said. “Confirm the nominee. Reject the nominee. But, in the end, vote.”

To hear Democrats decrying “judicial activism” is hypocrisy of the highest order. First of all, it’s liberal judicial activism that forced Massachusetts into same-sex marriage and it’s liberal judicial activism that found a right to an abortion in the Constitution.

Second, another nominee who’s been tarred with the “judicial activist” brush, William Pryor, has proved by his actions that he isn’t an activist. A Christian himself, he followed the law in removing the Ten Commandments monument from the Alabama courthouse, in spite of his opinion that the monument was appropriate in that setting.

But that proof is entirely glossed over by Democrats because, in truth, it’s not general “judicial activism” they’re worried about. They love it when it plays into their hands. They’re trying to get rid of judges based on their philosophy–their “deeply held beliefs”, as Sen. Shumer put it–that is a “radical departure from our history”, as Ken Starr put it. (And that’s how Starr really put it, vs. what you may have heard from CBS.)

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