Rich Lowry's head has been addled by those blazing starbursts
Mitch McConnell's hostage-taking of the Loretta Lynch nomination has one fan, Rich Lowry,
who just doesn't see why it's such a big deal to hijack the nomination of the first black woman who would be attorney general because of anti-abortion politics. Of course, he's pretending it's about being high-minded on immigration and the constitution and such.
As an African-American woman, Lynch represents a gloriously double-barreled opportunity to accuse Republicans of sub-rosa hatreds.
The political benefit of what feminists call intersectionality—membership in two or more historically oppressed groups—is not having to choose which accusation of bias to make.
One day, it can be racism; the next it can be sexism. Or, different people can make different charges of an -ism on the same day. The possibilities to mix and match are endless. […]
This is demonstrably false. As all the Republicans opposing her nomination make plain, the issue is her belief that President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty is lawful.
So there you go, McConnell, you got one guy on your side who says it's not a problem at all politically to not only delay this vote as long as possible, but to oppose this nomination. Not that it was ever in question that the editor of the
National Review would be on your side. Of course, this is the guy who
sees starbursts when Sarah Palin is on the teevee and thinks she's winking just for him, so maybe he's not your best ally here on the optics of women stuff.