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Racist Democrats, led by Hillary Clinton and Ted Kennedy—two icons of lily-white power families—have reached back into their despicable past and thwarted minority advancement again. Democrats, by hypocritically refusing to allow a vote on Miguel Estrada's nomination, have demonstrated their willingness to once again stand before the doors of advancement and achievement because the people trying to get in are of a different race.

Back in the 1950s and 1960s, white Democrats throughout the south blocked access to schools when the Republican President, Dwight Eisenhower, ordered all schools integrated as per the Supreme Court decision in Brown v Board of Education. Today it is Hillary Clinton and Ted Kennedy and their followers who are standing in front of the doors to Federal courts, telling minorities to "stay put" and not try to advance without the permission of white leaders.

Faced with racism and bigotry at the hands of Democrats in the south, Republican President Dwight Eisenhower ordered in Federal troops to guarantee access to schools for minority students. Hopefully another Republican President, George W. Bush will use the power of his office to make recess appointments to place qualified minorities into Federal judiciary positions and foil the racist goals of people like Hillary Clinton and Ted Kennedy.

For one hundred and fifty years Democrats in the south kept blacks down through a variety of legislative and illegal means, including intimidation, segregation, infringement of voting rights and police intimidation. Today the tactics are more subtle and masked by propaganda about "conservatives", yet aimed at the same goal: to keep minorities out of power unless they are willing to "play the game" that Democrats have rigged against them.

Not surprisingly, this is not the first time that racist Democrats in Congress have held up a minority appointment. In the 1960s the ideological forefathers of Clinton and Kennedy help up the nomination of Thurgood Marshall with similar tactics. Marshall was finally installed with a recess appointment. When Clarence Thomas was nominated for the Supreme Court, racist Democrats proffered ridiculous objections, including his video tape rental records and unsupported allegations of a former coworker.

In a telling measure of the lengths to which Democrats will go to stop such nominees, they have already prepared smear attacks against any potential nominee. Both generic smears like "too conservative" to use against any candidate to specific attacks against likely nominees. Democrats have spent years researching potential nominees, looking for any scrap of information they can spin against them. In a procedure eerily reminiscent of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, objections to nominees are frequently pre-printed and available for distribution even before any nomination is announced.

Democrats were extremely transparent in the methods they used to block a vote on Miguel Estrada in the Senate. First, when they controlled the Senate, they refused to hold hearings, claiming they "didn't know anything" about him. Well, a reasonable person would expect a hearing to be used to ask questions and thus become educated about the nominee. Then when Republicans liberated the Senate in 2002 Democrats moved to their fallback position: obstruct the process. During hearings Estrada answered over 125 questions, yet Democrats simply charged that he "refused to answer questions". The only questions that Estrada declined to answer were ones which judicial ethics prevented him from answering. When the baseless "refused to answer questions" tactic failed, Democrats launched a filibuster to prevent a vote by the full Senate. The filibuster continued the process of blocking Estrada's nomination, a process that grew to two years and five months until Estrada withdrew his name from consideration. And this is what the racist Democrats are calling a "victory".

Liberal commentators are desperate to spin the racism as something else, anything else. Casting about for something that will stick they claim that it is President Bush who is racist for nominating Estrada (!) or perhaps that "Congress" as an institution is at fault instead of the people actually blocking Estrada's nomination. Indeed, some liberal apologists are even attempting to drag Trent Lott (!) into the discussion. To all those liberal apologists caught in their own trap of propaganda over "affirmative action": we told you so. Treating people equally means just that. They are equal at the same time, in the same place with the same opportunities. They are not equal only when they are a member of your party and unequal when they are a member of another party.

President Bush should keep appointing minorities to Federal court positions. We need to send a message to the Democrats that their legacy of discrimination is over and will not be allowed to return. President Johnson appointed the first black to the Supreme Court, President Reagan appointed the first woman to the Supreme Court and President Bush should stand up to the racists and bigots in the Senate and continue to appoint well-qualified Hispanics to the Federal court system, so that someday they too will have the opportunity to serve on the nation's highest court.

Democrats...have demonstrated their willingness to once again stand before the doors of advancement and achievement because the people trying to get in are of a different race.

[The] goal: to keep minorities out of power unless they are willing to "play the game" that Democrats have rigged against them.

Not surprisingly, this is not the first time that racist Democrats in Congress have held up a minority appointment.

...send a message to the Democrats that their legacy of discrimination is over...