The left gets what it asked for

Wesley Pruden in the DC Times has a nicely turned bit of well focused commentary on the early developments in the Donk-RINO response to the Judge Alito nomination:

The early action in Washington is media skirmishing, as the players jostle and jiggle for position against the day when it will be time to lock and load. The high priests of secularism are desperate to protect the rite of abortion, which is to the noisily devout of the left what the doctrine of the Virgin Birth is to orthodox Christianity.

Hysteria and hyperbole are the reigning emotions of the holy high rollers. “Abortion will be the first item Judge Alito and I will discuss,” says Sen. Arlen Specter, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who never misses a chance to shoot at his friends. Kate Michelman, the past president of NARAL-Pro-Choice America, detected something shiny and significant at her feet, and to her chagrin, it was not a suction pump. “Now the gauntlet has been, I think, thrown down.” Barbara Boxer, the senator from California who knows something about appeasing red-hots on her flanks, says, “This nomination is aimed at appeasing the most right-wing elements of the president’s political base.” Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, eager to provoke, calls the nomination a “needless provocation.” Teddy Kennedy, the Massachusetts answer to the prayer of every young woman in distress, describes Samuel Alito as a risk to fundamental American freedoms.

A fine job of capturing the ambiance of the Donks’ twin hypes of the day: hyperbole and hypocrisy. He also notes the activities of their fellow-travelers in the MSM:

The usual echoes in the media are contributing the bass (and base) notes to the angry chorus. John Roberts, the CBS correspondent who once imagined himself big enough to fill Dan Rather’s BVDs, couldn’t get his mind out of his pants yesterday and used a vulgar sexual allusion to demand of the president’s press spokesman whether the choice of Judge Alito was merely the president trying to find satisfaction with “sloppy seconds.” Ron Fournier rose to the defense of Miss Miers in an Associated Press dispatch, chiding Republicans for demanding that Judge Alito “get a vote in the Senate — something they denied [Miss] Miers.”

Hold on to your hats, and batten down the hatches mates! The Chief forecasts that the REAL hurricane season of political hot air is just getting underway. It will be interesting.