Vermont to Leahy: Mess with Texas

From the Vermont Guardian:

Democrats, independents and moderate Republicans who can still be swayed by facts must come to their senses and recognize that this administration, hell bent on remaking the courts in its conservative, anti-states’ rights, anti-civil liberties image, will try all manner of Machiavellian ploys.

Send Miers’ nomination back to the president’s desk and demand that he nominate the real candidate first.

In the days after Sen. Jim Jeffords left the Republican party, Leahy, who became chairman of the Judiciary Committee as Democrats took control of the Senate and helped to thwart some of Bush’s most conservative nominees from reaching the federal bench, said proudly: “All those bumper stickers that say ‘Don’t Mess with Texas’ should be replaced with ones that say ‘Don’t Mess with Vermont.’”

Sen. Leahy, it’s time to mess with Texas.