Warning: Partisan Rant Follows:

I have suspected for a long time that NY Sen. Charles Schumer is really the one in charge in the Senate.

To me he’s an obnoxious partisan to the point of nothing I have ever seen recently.

Today he is quoted as saying the following:

New York Sen. Charles E. Schumer, a powerful member of the Democratic leadership, said Friday the Senate should not confirm another U.S. Supreme Court nominee under President Bush “except in extraordinary circumstances.”

“We should reverse the presumption of confirmation,” Schumer told the American Constitution Society convention in Washington. “The Supreme Court is dangerously out of balance. We cannot afford to see Justice Stevens replaced by another Roberts, or Justice Ginsburg by another Alito.”

Senators were too quick to accept the nominees’ word that they would respect legal precedents, and “too easily impressed with the charm of Roberts and the erudition of Alito,” Schumer said.

“There is no doubt that we were hoodwinked,” said Schumer, who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee and heads the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

A White House spokeswoman, Dana Perino, said Schumer’s comments show “a tremendous disrespect for the Constitution” by suggesting that the Senate not confirm nominees.

“This is the kind of blind obstruction that people have come to expect from Sen. Schumer,” Perino said. “He has an alarming habit of attacking people whose character and position make them unwilling or unable to respond. That is the sign of a bully. If the past is any indication, I would bet that we would see a Democratic senatorial fundraising appeal in the next few days.”

It’s all about the party’s agenda and to heck with the constitution, isn’t it, Senator Schumer?

We want justices who will go to foreign countries’ law to decide law in this country rather than rely on the document that has kept us strong all these years, don’t we, Senator Schumer?

We want justices who will make law out of whole-cloth and proclaim it constitutional, don’t we Senator Schumer?

We want justices who will say the right to privacy is a constitutional guarantee someone can abort a baby for any or no reason, don’t we, Senator Schumer?

And last but not least, we want candidates for Supreme Court justices to testify as Ruth Bader Ginsburg did to the Senate, stating how she would rule in hypothetical cases, don’t we, Senator Schumer? In those days someone declared well-qualified by the ABA was all it took to be confirmed.

And I want to see you knocked down from your pedestal upon which you put yourself, Senator Schumer. I hope to live long enough to see that day. Yours is the face of the problems we are having in government right now, Sir, and you’re proud of it.