First Hispanic AG Confirmed Despite Senate Democrats

The Democratic Party continues to commit political suicide. Do they think that the fastest-growing portion of the American electorate will forget how they treated Alberto Gonzales?

The Senate voted 60-36 to put the first Hispanic ever into the job, with all of the "no" votes coming from Democrats and Democratic-leaning Independent Jim Jeffords of Vermont. Last week, 12 Democrats and Jeffords voted against Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's confirmation.

Gonzales will replace John Ashcroft, who won more Democratic support four years ago despite contentious stances on a number of issues. Eight Democrats voted for Ashcroft, while six voted for Gonzales.

The Democrats' record in this regard is consistent---every time the GOP nominates a minority or a woman to a history-making post, they oppose it. Clarence Thomas. Condi Rice. Alberto Gonzales.

So much for the Democratic Party supporting civil rights.

This has been a watershed year for exposing the utter hypocrisy of the Left, both within the Democratic Party and the Democratic underground that is the mainstream media.

The best bet for Howard Dean and the DNC is to pressure law schools to start cranking out trial lawyers and try to get Breyer and Ginsburg to drive to rule disenfranchising felons and the dead unconstitutional. These will soon be the last voter blocks Democrats can count upon to show up at the polls.