— Diana West’s editorial on the smear campaign liberal special interests are waging against Pickering is worth reading:
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat, repeatedly uses the word “polarizing” to explain the Democrats’ expected rejection of the appointment. What is polarizing, however, is not Pickering, but the personal smear campaign against him. Senate Democrats may wash their hands of the matter by voting “nay” tomorrow, but that’s not very likely to leave them clean.
As a Californian, I’m especially annoyed with Feinstein for her role in this ugly affair. She studiously avoids calling Pickering a racist, but her insistence that he, and not the fund-raising-hysteria-driven PFAW and NWLC goons are responsible for the polarization is an affront to intelligence.