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More Parsky Watch Parsky Watch - The Magazine Take the Parsky Watch IQ Test Visit the Parsky Watch Store	Back to Parsky Watch archives National Review attacks Feinstein Parsky Watch #27 October 17, 2002 RISING CHORUS AGAINST PARSKY COMMISSIONS In case you missed, The National Review recently called on President Bush to disband the Parsky Commissions in response to Dianne Feinstein’s utter unwillingness to consider the President’s judicial nominees in good faith. Is Gerry listening, or is he laboring under the continuing delusion he can do business with these fanatics? National Review The Week – September 30, 2002 “This time, Senate Democrats did not bother to make false charges of ethical misconduct or racism against a conservative judicial nominee. They rejected Priscilla Owen, President Bush’s pick for a federal appeals court, simply – and more or less openly – because she is not a liberal. Owen, a Texas supreme-court justice, does not believe it is her prerogative to override state law to let teenage girls have abortions without notifying their parents. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat, was not about to abide by such extremism. Feinstein said she had never voted against a female nominee and that she liked Owen. But “the issue of choice…is extraordinarily important.” The immediate consequence of this vote should be President Bush’s withdrawal from an arrangement made last year that gave Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, the other Democratic senator from California, a say in picking nominees for district-court judges in California. That deal might have made sense if Democrats were willing to bargain in good faith. The Owen vote shows that they are not. The Democrats’ blackballing of conservative judges – done at the behest of liberal interest groups, not the public – should also be an issue in the Senate elections, if Republican candidates have the wit to use it.”