Grudge match
Sen. Barbara "Couldn't think her way out of a cardboard box" Boxer has put a hold on former California Rep. James Rogan's nomination to a federal district judgeship because he was one of the impeachment managers against then-President Bill Clinton.
Apparently, lying under oath to a grand jury isn't a high crime or misdemeanor, but prosecuting it is. From John Fund's article:
Sen. Boxer in the past actually appeared with Mr. Rogan at a Senate Judiciary hearing. It happened in 1997, when then-Sen. John Ashcroft of Missouri was leading the opposition to the confirmation of Margaret Morrow, a former state bar association president whom Ms. Boxer was supporting for a District Court vacancy. Mr. Ashcroft felt Ms. Morrow was a "judicial activist," in part because of a speech she'd given to a women's legal conference in which she had asserted that "the law is almost by definition on the cutting edge of social thought. It is a vehicle through which we ease the transition from the rules which have always been to the rules which are to be." Rep. Rogan had disagreements with Ms. Morrow's views, but he thought her clearly qualified. With his support and Ms. Boxer's, the Senate confirmed her, 67-28.
Now Ms. Boxer is refusing to allow Mr. Rogan even the courtesy of a hearing. Left-wing bloggers who are commending her "courage" in stopping "the reactionary Rogan" from taking a federal judgeship for which so many people in both parties think he's eminently qualified. Far from exhibiting courage, Ms. Boxer is knuckling under to her party's most extreme elements.
You know what they say about payback.
If Democrats keep this up, when it's their turn they won't be able to get a lawyer who once walked past the local ACLU offices confirmed to the federal bench.
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Rogan should be confirmed, he's extremely qualified.
But you must being seeing more-back-boned-Republicans than I am. Oh, they'll make that threat of never confirm when their turn comes, but they'll compromise as usual. There are very few who talk the talk, and walk the walk. Most just anything to keep both sides happy, which results in p-ssing off the very side that elected them.