Senate Dems. Will be tougher on Roberts now

As they should be:

Senate Democrats said that the move to make Roberts the 17th chief justice of the United States required careful deliberation, particularly given Roberts's relatively short, two-year tenure as a federal appeals court judge.

"The stakes are higher and the Senate's advice and consent responsibility is even more important," said Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.). "If confirmed to this lifetime job, John Roberts would become the leader of the third branch of the federal government and the most prominent judge in the nation."

The question we all need to be asking is: Can we trust the man who created the failed Department of Homeland Security and who stayed on vacation during the worst disaster to hit the US to give us a capable Chief Justice?