DEMOCRATS WON'T FIGHT ROBERTS

If Judge Roberts is such a strict, constitutionalist, conservative - wouldn't the Democrats fight him tooth and claw? They have been using every trick in the book, and a few not in the book, to stonewall Bush's judicial nominees for the past five years.

Why would they let this one through so easily after fighting so hard against all the others? Shouldn't that raise a red flag in the minds of any thinking conservative?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/15/AR2005081501433_pf.html

Roberts Unlikely To Face Big Fight

Many Democrats See Battle as Futile

By Mike Allen and Dana Milbank Washington Post Staff Writers August 16, 2005

Democrats have decided that unless there is an unexpected development in the weeks ahead, they will not launch a major fight to block the Supreme Court nomination of John G. Roberts Jr., according to legislators, Senate aides and party strategists.

"No one's planning all-out warfare," said a Senate Democratic aide closely involved in caucus strategy on Roberts. For now, the aide said, Democratic strategy is to make it clear Roberts is subject to fair scrutiny while avoiding a pointless conflagration that could backfire on the party. "We're going to come out of this looking dignified and will show we took the constitutional process seriously," the aide said.

TG: The rest of the lengthy article is on the website above, but this makes the point intended.