Conservatives Suddenly Go for Quotas

When Bill Clinton suggested his cabinet look like America, liberals thought that didn't just mean the colors and creeds of America, but our sense of fairness and duty. But suddenly conservative commentators love the narrow-minded definition of affirmative action:

New York Post commentator Deborah Orin quotes scholar Stephen Hess: "Why would they vigorously oppose the first black woman to be secretary of state and the first Latino to be attorney general?"

The Reagan-worshipping OpinionJournal marvelled that "It boggles the mind that 36 Democrats would vote against the first Hispanic attorney general."

It boggles my mind that equal opportunity has been twisted into equal opportunism.