McConnell as sapper

Today's Courier-Journal hits the nail on the head:

Mitch McConnell will vote "no" on the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor. He says her "record of written statements suggests an alarming lack of respect for the notion of equal justice, and, therefore, in my view, an insufficient willingness to abide by the judicial oath." That just proves that Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., was right in predicting the Judiciary Committee's hearings would be "mostly about liberal and conservative politics more than anything else."

Kentucky's junior senator, Jim Bunning, will vote "no," too, but out of mugwump conviction.

Ms. Sotomayor's 17-year record on the federal bench actually reveals her to be, as even some Republicans have had to admit, a "mainstream" judge. First nominated to the federal bench by President George H.W. Bush, she has been confirmed by the Senate twice before and will be again, with support from responsible Republicans like Indiana's Sen. Richard Lugar.