The left gets what it asked for�-�Nation/Politics�-�The Washington Times, America's Newspaper:
"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. (Impeachment to follow?) "
