The wacky performance of congressional Democrats in front of moveon.org the other day had the whiff of desparation about it. Here’s the incoherent Barbara Boxer, for example:

Why would we give lifetime appointments to people who earn up to $200,000 a year, with absolutely a great retirement system, and all the things all Americans wish for, with absolutely no check and balance except that one confirmation vote. So we’re saying we think you ought to get nine votes over the 51 required. That isn’t too much to ask for such a super important position. There ought to be a super vote. Don’t you think so? It’s the only check and balance on these people. They’re in for life. They don’t stand for election like we do, which is scary.

Now we know the reason for the desparation — the prospect of yet another loss of power. Today, our friend Thomas Lifson of The American Thinker has an incisive piece in RCP detailing half a dozen reasons that the long trend of judicial activism is in the process of ending. Our modest effort at adding to his terrific work is this: the lying about how “extreme” and “radical” and “out of the mainstream” each young or talented or female or minority or simply conservative appointment is — this just doesn’t work any more. If the GOP senators will stop reading the NYT and the Washington Post for a few months, and tune out the networks, things will be fine.

Since 2002, the New Media have not only won the war with the MSM, they have won virtually every battle. With the fine arguments advanced by Lifson, there is every reason to believe that the trend will continue.

UPDATE

You can watch Ted Kennedy Speak Truth to Justice with this link.

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