Gore Vidal is not the only voluble anti-Bush partisan
addicted to verbal extremity. Consider Senator Edward
Kennedy’s recent comments about Democratic efforts to block
the President’s judicial nominees, a group that includes the
Hispanic lawyer Miguel Estrada and the Black judge Janice
Rogers Brown. Speaking on the Senate floor, the Senior
Senator from Massachusetts dilated on “the resolution and
the determination of the members of the United States Senate
to continue to resist any Neanderthal that is nominated by
this president of the United States for any court.”
“Neanderthal”? Just imagine the media firestorm had a
Republican Senator made that comment.