Sunday, October 16, 2005
Republican Hypocrisy
Whenever Jeffrey Rosen appears on television or writes a piece I try to listen to what he is saying. He is an extremely bright constitutional law professor from George Washington University who is a liberal but who has criticism of both the left and right that I always find intelligent. Today he has a piece about the Miers nomination in the New York Times magazine which includes this observation:
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The fact that a (politically weakened) Republican president felt compelled to maintain two women's seats on the Supreme Court suggests that gender and racial diversity have now replaced geographic and religious diversity as political imperatives that no president can afford to ignore. Republican hypocrisy on affirmative action has become painful. The familiar Republican position is that gender, like race and ethnicity, should be used at most as a tiebreaker to choose among equally qualified candidates. In that spirit, Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, said in September, "I don't know whether John Roberts has a twin, perhaps a sister or, uh, someone with a Hispanic last name."He is correct again.
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