What's The Big Deal?

I was watching a segment of Scarborough Country tonight, and as a guest Joe had Congressman Anthony Weiner, D-NY. Congressman Weiner was incredulous as to what the big deal was over the Democrats filibustering of a few of President Bush's judicial nominees. He's gotten 90% of his nominees approved, so what's the big deal right? Wrong.

Too often nowadays, activist judges are legislating from the bench, whether it be outlawing the Pledge Of Allegiance or declaring gay marriage legal. Congressman Weiner said that we need non-ideological judges, ones that are not to the left or to the right. He is correct in this, however the problem is not conservative judges, but far left judges trying to coerce their ideology upon the rest of the nation, whether their rulings have any basis in the constitution or not. Nominating conservative, constructionist judges to the bench is vitally important to not only preserving the constitution, but preserving the proper role of the judiciary, which is to interpret current law, not make new law. This is why Democrats in the Senate must stop this practice of denying any judicial nominee what they rightly deserve, an up or down vote on the Senate floor.