No Good Cops Among Dems

Number 30 on my "Supreme Bias" list of media bias in the coverage of the John Roberts nomination pointed out that the media were assisting the DNC in setting up Patrick Leahy as the "good cop" -- reserving judgment, saying moderate things. I said it wouldn't last. It didn't.

Here's what Leahy said yesterday:

"Those papers that we have received paint a picture of John Roberts as an eager and aggressive advocate of policies that are deeply tinged with the ideology of the far right wing of his party then, and now. In influential White House and Department of Justice positions, John Roberts expressed views that were among the most radical being offered by a cadre intent on reversing decades of policies on civil rights, voting rights, women's rights, privacy, and access to justice."

So now who's going to be the good cop in the Dem grilling of Roberts?