ABOUT DAMN TIME, DUBYA!

Bush must have reached down and found his balls, because he finally used his executive powers and installed Judge Pickering.

President Bush used his executive authority Friday to bypass Senate Democrats and install District Judge Charles Pickering (search) on the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Expect every barking moonbat to be howling up a storm on this one. They've accused Pickering of being everything from a KKK sympathizer to ... well, I don't know what's worse than that. But Pickering's supporters show a different story.

But Pickering's supporters, including the former Democratic governor of the state, Ronnie Musgrove, the head of Mississippi's legislative black caucus and James Charles Evers, brother of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers (search), say the judge is well known for being scrupulously fair on the bench.

They add that as a state prosecutor in 1968, Pickering testified against a grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan (search), a decision that cost him his re-election, and as chairman of the state GOP, hired the first black political staffer.

In 1968, the highth of civil unrest, this man had the balls to stand up to the Klan, knowing that it might very well threaten his life. That's not just morals, and that's not just knowing what's right. That man has brass balls. He's now in my "Clank Brigade".

Pickering is a good man, and the Donks should have never slandered him like they do. Their insults, lies, and hysteria are a shame to that entire party. And it's good to see that a deserving man finally got treated right by Bush.