This is my first diary so please be gentle.
Factcheck.org, a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, is one of my favorite resources for breaking through the spin of the media and punditry.
They sent me a very interesting email today with the following headline
From the email
A Premature Attack
Pro-Bush group's ad faults Democrats for criticisms they haven't yet made, about a Supreme Court nominee who hasn't been named, to a vacancy that doesn't yet exist.
http://factcheck.org/article333.html
Summary
A pro-Bush group fired the opening salvo - they call it "a warning shot" - in what threatens to become a multi-million dollar advertising and public relations campaign over a possible Bush appointment to the Supreme Court. The ad predicts "Democrats will attack anyone the President nominates," saying that " a Supreme Court nominee deserves real consideration, instead of instant attacks."
Is this what the republicans have been reduced, to predicative assaults? I think it is crazy to run and ad about future outrage.
There has not even been a nomination yet and so far most of bush's appointments have been allowed through.