Harry Reid throws down the gaunlet on "Meet the Press"

Didn't take long. The new Senate Minority Leader, Harry Reid, said on Sunday's Meet the Press that Clarence Thomas was "an embarrassment" on the Supreme Court. Reid also said that he thought President Bush could take a few lessons on judicial nominations from Bill Clinton.

So Minority Leader Reid has an affinity for gauntlets. Since he just threw one down and all.

Does his brilliant idea to return to the idyllic days of Bill Clinton's nominations mean that he gives up on the filibuster idea? Because then-chairman Orrin Hatch basically went along with the Clinton Administration's nominees -- even Ginsburg -- without so much as a whimper. No filibuster for Ginsburg even though she was the poster girl for partisan political resumes. Oh, that's right. Ginsburg agrees with the Kennedy's, Schumer's and Durbin's of the world (and, as a judicial activist is more than willilng to implement the leftist social agenda from the bench) so she's ok.

Tell you what, Harry. We'll return to those Clinton nominations days, shall we? When the President nominated who he felt was the most qualified for the bench and there was not a peep about a filibuster. Sounds good to me.

I wonder what it is about Clarence Thomas that angers Reid so? Is it that he truly believes that Clarence Thomas is not bright enough to be on the Supreme Court? What does it say, then, about the U.S. Senate that confirmed him? Or, if he is the bright, accomplished jurist that most have come to know and respect him for, does it anger Minority Leader Reid that Justice Thomas is not beholden to what is left of the Democrat Party?

Women and minorities who don't tow the Democrat line get the most vitriolic response from the left. Not quite sure how that is strategically smart, but these are the geniuses who seem to believe that the obstruction thing is working out really well for them.

Fine by me, Harry. You want to continue to be the MINORITY Leader in the Senate, just keep it up. But you might want to check on that with your buddy, Tommy Daschle. The phone book/booster chair in his leadership seat isn't cold yet and you seem to have forgotten already that the very obstruction that you are threatening so cavalierly is what retired Mr. Daschle.