NewsFlash: Left Still Blaming Right

The recriminations from last week's Presedential election are continuing, which always make for interesting diatribes, but this one was particularly fun. It seems some Kerry insiders are putting the nexus of his defeat squarely at the feet of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.

For putting the gay marriage issue on the ballot, of course. Not the Massachusetts ballot, that remains to be seen, but on the ballot of 11 other states, some crucial to Bush's election last week, like Ohio.

To show you what a truly curious lot the Kerry people are, they were not happy blaming the Chief Justice, Margaret Marshall, for being the architect of the Court's decision to allow gay marriage in Massachsetts, (apparently she was prepared to write a minority opinion).

But instead they blame the otherwise usually can be counted on to vote conservative on the bench, Judith Cowan. She turned out to be the swing vote. Justice Cowan was supposed to vote against gay marriage, but she saw through all that moral values claptrap and voted her conscience, and with the majority.

Now far be it for the Kerryites to criticize the liberal Chief Justice, after all she is married to that scion of the left, New York Times writer, Anthony Lewis, and she, like Teresa Heinz, is also a product of colonial Africa, yet another reason not to canibalize her.

But it's quite another matter to victimize a supposed conservative, and a Cellucci appointee. You'd think she did it on purpose to sabotage the Kerry campaign, or to help the Republican Bush. You'd think that the Ambassador lobbied her on behalf all the way from Ottawa.

What a great conspiracy theory that it is. But yet it remains, the only Cellucci appointee (out of 4, a majority by the way) votes to create gay marriage in an election year, resulting, according to Kerry partisans at least, in a election issue to lose for.

But just to show you that all politics is local, Judith Cowan had help framing her opinion from a member of my clan. Her law clerk at the time was none other than, Nicholas Mitrokostas, yes, a cousin. He is the son of the famous Kreme n' Kone patriarch, an outspoken conservative. Upon learning of his son's accomplice, the father was reported to have asked for his law school tuition payments back!