The Waterkooler

There has been a lot of talk about this issue around the Waterkooler lately. Everyday conservatives and liberals can be seen pointing and gestering angrily at one another and we have to separate them lest they knock over the blessed fountain. There is no fighting at the Waterkooler. Play nice kids.

But the real issue sometimes gets buried beneath the politics. Both parties seem to make their point that the other is violating the constitution or following its great tradition and vice versa when it comes to filibustering judicial nominess and changing senate rules - both parties have done both things and accuse the other of doing something they never have. That's just politics. Pointing fingers at the other guy. But in case you somehow missed it, listen to why the Democrats are opposed to these judicial nominees in the first place. From the NYTimes:

"The two nominees Senator Frist is putting forth first are singularly unqualified: The first, Priscilla Owen, has openly favored big business and flouted abortion rights on the Texas Supreme Court."

Yes, God forbid we support businesses or oppose "abortion rights!"

Well, I could not have said better myself. There you have it ladies and gentlemen, in their own words - the Democratic Party: anti-capitalist, anti-Christian.

Yes, this whole thing is about abortion. As was the 2004 election, won by evangelicals who were promised a reversal of Roe vs. Wade. Sure the Iraq war was the big issue but judicial nominees was the behind the scenes issue that tipped the scales. Christians are mainstream. Abortion is an abomination and your country is telling you that something must be done. So America, what are you going to do?