Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Imagine if a Republican...

Judicial nominee "forgot" to disclose over 100 of his speeches and other background material. What would the media say? They'd be asking the question, what is he hiding? Is he a closet nazi? Is he a racist? Homophobe? Bigot? What could possibly be so horrible that he'd try and hide it?

But when an Obama nominee does it, it is just Republican obstructionism getting in the way of the messiah.

Senate Republicans on Tuesday slammed one of the Obama administration's most controversial judicial nominees for failing to initially disclose more than 100 of his speeches, publications and other background materials -- an omission the Republicans called unprecedented and a possible attempt to "hide his most controversial work."

They said Goodwin Liu's nomination to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is in "jeopardy" in light of the problem.

The complaint came after Liu, a Berkeley law professor, gave the Senate Judiciary Committee a bundle of supplemental material that contained 117 things he left out after his February nomination.

Among the items disclosed were several speeches on affirmative action and his participation at an event co-sponsored by the Center for Social Justice at Berkeley and the the National Council of La Raza, a Latino advocacy group.

In response to the new information, all seven Republicans on the Judiciary Committee fired off a letter to its chairman, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., demanding that Liu's hearing be postponed again.


Outside of Foxnews I'm sure this won't be reporting by the main stream media. For once I'd love to see some intellectual honesty. I'd love to see Chris Matthews or any of the MSNBC Obama lovers to criticize Obama for the same thing they would have bashed Bush for.

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