He was at the Grassy Knoll, too.....

From coverage over the past several days it appears the Left is in meltdown mode. They’ve already accused John Roberts of supporting abortion clinic bombers, now they’ll try to link him to plight of those visibly suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Next they’ll be blaming him for last year’s South Pacific Tsunami, 9/11, Pearl Harbor and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

“Leahy said he watched the scenes of hardship on television with a growing sense of anger over the inability to deliver services to those who depend most on the government, issues he said would come up during the Roberts hearings. ‘We'll have legitimate questions as to the authority of the federal government -- the central authority of the government -- but also the ability of individuals to seek redress if they don't get the help that they expect,’ Leahy said.” – Rick Klein, Boston Globe, 9/7/05.

“The hurricane served as a stark reminder that many Americans remain politically powerless and economically repressed, despite laws designed to help in areas like education, voting, employment, and housing, said Wade Henderson, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. He said he and Representative John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat and veteran civil rights leader, will refer to the scenes from Louisiana during their testimony on Roberts before the Judiciary Committee next week. '’They're a reminder that we really do live in a divided society, where race and class are factors, are part of daily life,’ Henderson said. '’What we know about John Roberts's record suggests ambivalence at best, hostility at worse, to enforcement of the nation's civil rights laws.’” – Rick Klein, Boston Globe, 9/7/05.

"The connection is obvious. The images after Hurricane Katrina show we still live in a society where significant racial inequities exist. We believe John Roberts' record on civil rights ... is clearly not the direction our country needs to head now." – Ben Brandzel, advocacy director for Moveon.org, USA Today, 9/8/05.

“The events of the past week have only underscored that we need Supreme Court justices who value the role of the courts in protecting individuals' rights and freedoms, [and] who understand the nature of discrimination." – Ralph Neas, president of People for the American Way, Knight-Ridder, 9/5/05.

“George Bush doesn’t care about black people.” – Rapper Kanye West, NBC, 9/2/05.

“[Harvard Law School Professor Alan] Dershowitz accused the late Chief Justice of being an anti-Semite and "start[ing] his career by being a kind of Republican thug who pushed and shoved to keep African-American and Hispanic voters from voting.” – Fox News Channel, 9/3/05.