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From: LindyBill9/2/2005 9:11:31 AM
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"This has got to get more visibility"
[Kathryn Jean Lopez 09/02 08:03 AM]

Katrina inconveniences the Left's Get-Roberts Strategy:

But as they scramble to rally grass-roots supporters in the days before the confirmation hearings and the month before the Senate is expected to vote, some opposition groups worried that their efforts had failed to pierce the din of concerns about rising gasoline prices, casualties in Iraq, and, most recently, the hurricane devastation in New Orleans.

"Now there is this hurricane," said Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority Foundation. In exasperation, Ms. Smeal suggested Thursday that the Senate Judiciary Committee should postpone the confirmation hearings, scheduled to begin Tuesday, because the hurricane was distracting attention from debate on the nomination. "This has got to get more visibility," Ms.
Smeal said. "We have to do something."
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