bush "reaching out" to democrats!

From CNN

Bush to resubmit blocked judicial nominees
Strengthened majority in new Senate could ease approvals

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush will renominate a group of judicial nominees who were blocked by Senate Democrats during his first term, the White House said Thursday.
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In response to Republican charges of obstructionism, Senate Democrats have countered that they have voted to confirm the vast majority of Bush's judicial nominees and are blocking only those that are so conservative that they are out of the mainstream.
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Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, accused Bush of being divisive.
"The Bush Administration is ending the year as they began it, choosing confrontation over compromise, ideology over moderation, and defiance over cooperation," he said in a written statement.
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"On some of their controversial nominees, they may prevail because of their monopoly of power. The big loser, however, will be the independence of our judicial branch of government."
Ralph G. Neas, president of People for the American Way, also sharply criticized Bush.
"The president has regrettably signaled his renewal of partisan warfare,"
Neas said, characterizing Bush's action as a "plan to re-nominate extremist nominees."
"The president and his team want to pack the federal courts with right-wing ideologues, and roll back decades of progress in social justice," he said. "This portends long, hard months of debate over the federal courts, and sends a truly disturbing signal of what we can expect if and when a Supreme Court vacancy occurs."

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Not that anyone expected bush to actually try to be fair to both sides and actually pick someone even vaguely moderate, but the gall to nominate people who were blocked in his last term just to see if he can get them through this time is insulting! This guy is just a jerk, plain and simple!