Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told Trent Lott (R-MS), and
told my son this voluntarily, ‘We're going to confirm your
dad by December.’ The groups said, ‘No, not so fast’;
so they were calling the shots, they were calling the tempo,

What happened to me
is not that important in the scheme of things,” he said.
“But what is happening to the judiciary is tremendously
important to all Americans. So, I'm not bitter - my spirits are
good. My faith has not been weakened. God's grace indeed is sufficient.

I knew in advance what they were going
to say about John Roberts. They were going to say that he was
a threat to these rights. That he was out of the mainstream, and
they said that before they had ever researched his record. Doesn't
matter.

They accuse the Bush nominees of being
out of the mainstream of American thought, but polls indicate
clearly that the positions they (liberal special interest groups)
hold are the ones that are way, way out of the mainstream of American
thought.

I thought I was uncontroversial, and
I thought I would just slide through. I naively told people that
I was a non-controversial nominee.

I'm sure that the mayor thought he gave you the list and that was sufficient,