Sliming Priscilla Owen

From AP:

AUSTIN, Texas — A Sunday school teacher who graduated among the top of her law school class but angered abortion rights advocates by wanting to make it harder for minors to terminate a pregnancy is at the center of the historic storm in the U.S. Senate over the future of the federal judiciary.

To President Bush and other supporters, Priscilla Owen is, in the president's words, "a woman of integrity ... known to be a fair and impartial judge who strives to interpret the law fairly."

To her opponents, the 50-year-old Texas Supreme Court justice is a "judicial activist ... (whose) record shows a bias in favor of government secrecy and business interests, and against the environment, victims of discrimination and medical malpractice," in the words of Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, the senior Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

...The scrutiny was not unexpected. But to Owen's friends and associates, some of the rancor and hostility at the mere mention of her name has been a surprise.

"I'm used to the rough-and-tumble politics, but this thing, not allowing her on the federal bench because she's some monster, is like so wrong," said the Rev. Jeff Black, her pastor at St. Barnabas the Encourager Evangelical Covenant Church in Austin. "We just get so upset because she simply is not like that at all, not even a little bit.

"She's like the wonderful older sister or aunt" for some of the youngsters in her Sunday school class, Black said.

Until Bush nominated her four years ago to fill a vacancy on the New Orleans-based appeals court, Owen's public life was unknown to most of the 300-member congregation. Black said everyone regarded her as "just somebody who worked downtown" and set up the church altar each Sunday.
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The Democrats are shameless. They have been willing to brutally and unjustly attack the character of Priscilla Owen to win a political battle. They don't mind pommeling her ruthlessly because they'll do anything to appease the special interest groups that keep them alive politically.

According to the radical Dems, her confirmation would "roll back equality, liberty, and individual rights of all Americans."

How do these people live with themselves?