It’s quite amazing how the liberal press and those of the left in our government can take a truth and completely invert it for their own political gain. Take the matter of President Bush’s nominee for the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, Janice Rogers Brown. Here again we have an excellent candidate, one who is rated as qualified by the American Bar Association and who has consistently ruled on the word of law rather than acquiesce to the role of judicial activist that so many liberal judges have adopted. Yet we are hearing "pre-emptive” rumblings about how she is a "far right dream judge” and a judge that has a "record of ideological extremism and aggressive judicial activism that makes her unfit to serve on the appeals court.” It would seem that the obstructionists in the Senate are revving up their engines to take yet another qualified judicial nominee to the land of limbo.

Born to a sharecropper family in Alabama, Ms. Brown has spent all but two years of her legal career in public service. She was appointed to the California Supreme Court in 1996 and has been described by syndicated columnist Thomas Sowell, who by the way is an American-African – if that matters, as having "been a very tough advocate of applying the law as it is written. When her fellow justices have gone the judicial activism route, her scathing and brilliant dissents have punctured their pretenses without mercy. Moreover, she has shown herself to be as knowledgeable as she is tough-minded." Now excuse me for perhaps sounding naïve but aren’t these the qualities that we should be searching for in a federal judge?

Even though Ms. Brown is an excellent candidate by any standards, and even though she comes from the Mecca of Liberal-Land, that is still not enough for the obstructionists of the US Senate. Ever determined to rebuke any nominee introduced by President Bush for fear he may actually get to nominate someone to the US Supreme Court with differing opinions from that of the most liberal among us, they are once again setting up to filibuster Ms. Brown’s nomination.

"‘This Bush nominee has such an atrocious civil rights record she makes Clarence Thomas look like Thurgood Marshall,’ said Rep. Diane Watson, D-CA.

But it could be that the tide is turning when it comes to the political voodoo the liberals in the US Senate have been employing towards President Bush’s judicial nominees. Project 21, an American-African leadership network, is calling the obstructionist senators to task before Brown’s hearings come to pass.

"There is nothing in Judge Brown's judicial history that should disqualify her from serving on the U.S. Court of Appeals," said Project 21 member Sean Turner. "She has proven her ability to follow the letter of the law and refrained from social engineering from the bench, despite the pervasive activism of many of today's jurists. It is time for the NAACP to step to the plate for a change and support a qualified individual who happens to be a part of their purported constituency. It is also time for liberals to cease these sophomoric attempts of obstruction for their own political gain."

To be sure, the obstructionists in the US Senate, led by minority leader Tom Daschle, are not only pushing their luck by attempting to filibuster yet another of President Bush’s judicial nominations but also in attempting to block the elevation of an American-African female to the federal bench. The Democrats are in serious danger of alienating the American-African voter base because of the transparency of their pandering. It has become obvious to almost everyone who even remotely considers him or herself aware that the Clintonian Democrats have done nothing but promise and pander to the American-African community in order to garner favor and votes. They have done little, if anything at all, to actually help those of the American-African community who either need the help of the federal government or deserve the endorsement of the federal government. In essence, they have been miserable failures, to borrow a phrase, in their commitment to the American-African community.

After years of faithfulness to the Democratic Party we are starting to see the leaders of the American-African community who believed the promise of a brighter future through government entitlement, and who believed that they had allies in government in the Democrats they helped get elected, start to take action against the very same political creatures because they lied to them. They are starting to realize their promises are hollow, their compassion superficial and their commitment non-existent. They are starting to understand that those who pandered, promised and committed did so only for the moment, the moment the votes were to be cast. After the lever was pulled, the oval filled and the chad de-dangled, their panderers suddenly disappeared into the political mist of the Washington status quo. They are starting to understand that this is happening because the promises were never made in earnest, they were made during the political campaign and as any member of the liberal left can affirm, promises made during a political campaign somehow have a way of becoming relative after one is elected.

Ms. Brown’s supporters are already on to the liberal Democratic game:

"This is one of the clearest examples of liberal bigotry that can be identified." Said Project 21 member Mychal Massie. "Jurists such as Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Miguel Estrada and Justice Janice Rogers are despised by liberals because they stand for truth, integrity, accountability and responsibility to both to the law and the greater community."

Liberals also despise them because they make it harder for them to keep up the charade that they care for the American-African community, and minority communities in total, more than anyone in the conservative movement. And of course, as pandering revisionists and champions of relativism, they can’t have this.

It is high noon for the ultra-liberals in the Democratic Party. Let’s see if they are astute enough not to blow this one. I am betting they aren’t.

Frank Salvato is a political media consultant and the managing editor for The New Media Journal.us. He is a contributing writer for The Washington Dispatch, GOPUSA, OpinionEditorials, Men’s News Daily, Canada Free Press & AmericanDaily. His pieces are regularly featured in Townhall.com. He has appeared as a guest on The O’Reilly Factor, The Kevin Matthews Radio Show (Chicago) and The Brad Messer Radio Show (San Antonio). His pieces have been recognized by the Japan Center for Conflict Prevention and are occasionally featured in The Washington Times and The London Morning Paper as well as other national and international publications.