GOP Won't Fight for Judges

From Politico:

Republican senators have already blamed the breezy confirmation process for Elena Kagan on simple math, saying Kagan’s confirmation to the Supreme Court is already ensured with 58 Democrats in the Senate.

But the GOP has more than just a math problem with Kagan. It has a passion problem — the party, which has used judicial nominations to stoke the culture wars for more than a decade, appears to have lost its edge on judges.

Now some conservatives worry that if Republicans can’t gin up a real battle over a left-leaning high court nominee from President Barack Obama in an election year, how can they be expected to grind out fights on dozens of lower-court nominees who are getting lifetime appointments to the federal bench?

“Maybe we have fallen down on the job,” Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, told POLITICO. “I think a lot of Republicans tend to say, ‘Well, the president gets whoever he nominates.’”

This is yet another example of the Republicans playing by rules the Democrats refuse to follow. Yes, when our guy is president we believe he should get who he nominates, but the Democrats don't think that way and will fight with every trick they've got. If the GOP Senators can't bring themselves to fight for their voters with the same passion, they need to step down and let's get some people in there who will not handicap themselves against their political enemies.