Monday, February 03, 2003

The horse doesn't do permalinks that I can tell. But they do good job of putting Ann Coulter and Miguel Estrada in the same box.

-- Coulter's clam-up confirms that the right-wing strategy is to say NOTHING about what Estrada thinks, and on that basis to ram him through as a stealth candidate.

-- Coulter final bit of bravado, just as she goes to pieces, confirms that she knows exactly what his views on the law and the judiciary are -- and that they are just as extremist as hers are. Of that she, at least, is absolutely confident.

It's past time for the press to follow up on both of these points. The United States Senate and the American people deserve to know all they can about Estrada's views on important legal issues, like the status of Roe v. Wade. And it's the sworn duty of the press to find out that kind of information, even (or even especially) when faced with official stonewalling.

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