Not Qualified

Yesterday, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted along party lines to send judicial nominees Priscilla Owens and Janice Rogers Brown to the Senate floor (again) for confirmation. Democrats are expected to continue their filibusters against both, and Republicans are expected to rule those filibusters unconstitutional and then vote to confirm.

It's easy to get caught up the politics of the whole thing and miss the essential point here, which is that neither Owens nor Brown is even close to being qualified to sit on the federal bench. The GOP would have you believe that the majority party should get everything they want as soon as they want it. But as these two nominations prove, that's an incredibly bad idea.