Let’s return to that headline:
“Will Obama Move the Court Leftwards?”
He’ll certainly try to. And he’ll do so while importing feel-good psychological categories like “empathy” and “understanding” (meaning, by the way, “I understand, i.e., I feel your pain”) to try to make us forget that the law is being sabotaged in order to further a socialist assault on private property and individual liberty. You should not be surprised by any of this. Ever since he entered public life, Obama has been completely upfront about what he wants to do. It’s just that he surrounds the frank talk about trashing the Constitution, redistributing wealth, empathetic judges, and so on with oleaginous rhetoric about “justice,” “fairness,” and “equality.” Lenin did likewise, though don’t expect any thanks for pointing that out.
It was Lenin, too, come to think of it, who first stressed the importance of capitalizing on–er, maybe “exploiting” would be more politic than “capitalizing on”–the first 100 days of your administration: who knew when the forces of reaction might start fighting back, Comrade? Barack Obama has certainly moved rapidly in his first 100 days, nationalizing a huge swath of the American auto industry, shackling a generation or two with incalculable levels of debt, cosying up to enemies from Iran to Venezuela, and making it clear in manifold ways that his administration regards conservative dissent from his policies as a greater threat than radical Islam. Where will it all end? I don’t know the answer to that. I expect the smiles to continue, though, even as many of us find it harder, in Obama’s words, to “make a living and care for their families,” and who feel ever less “safe in their homes” and, indeed, in their country. Sooner or later, I predict, people will wake up and then the smiles will vanish. In the meantime, however, I keep thinking about that character Saul Bellow described in Humbolt’s Gift as being “smooth as a suppository.” It’s the sort of charm that gets you pretty far in. But how do you get out again?
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1. srlucado:Obama’s going to need a packed Supreme Court so he can assure the outcome of the upcoming show trials.
Stalin must be so proud.
May 2, 2009 - 7:49 am 2. Pajamas Media » Will Obama Move the Supreme Court Leftwards?:[...] the entire story here [...]
May 2, 2009 - 12:03 pm 3. ILikeIke:Hey, if a leftward tilt is the only way we’re going to avoid giving the FCC a puritanical right to regulate language on TV, then we desperately need a leftward tilt.
Enough of the right-wing nanny state!
May 2, 2009 - 12:22 pm 4. Oldguy:He can only replace existing liberal justices for right now. In fact any appointment to the federal bench is a dice roll. This is the nature of lifetime appointments, since any of them can rule as they damn well please.
May 2, 2009 - 12:48 pm 5. Delia:“Will Obama Move the Court Leftwards?”
Does the Pope wear a funny hat? Does a bear sh*t in the woods?
Hmm…“empathy” and “understanding”? You mean like what 0bama shows for his illegal immigrant Aunt living in poverty or his impoverished kin folk in Africa? “I feel your pain” is not O’s message he sends when he turned up his heat in the OO while people froze to death in flyover country or dined and champagned and party hardied it up or giggled with ‘gallows humor’ over the economy or made jokes about ’special olympics’ when referencing his bowling game…etc. etc.
-As far as choosing people by their race or sex, this is not surprising coming from someone who got his leg-up in life by being a affirmative action Harvard student who incidentally hid his grades/writings/thesis.
I’ve said this before but it bears repeating:
I firmly believe that 0bama studied the Constitution not to uphold it but rather to tear it apart much like computer hackers study a program or operating system so that they can ‘reverse engineer’ it.
The fate of America hangs in the balance as the Leftist Regime marches our Country and everythings she stands
forwardbackwards into the depths of socialism.Meanwhile, our self-absorbed TOTUS is still trying to quench his rapacious thirst for stardom and worship.
May 2, 2009 - 12:58 pm 6. The Historian:COLLEGE STUDENTS FIND A WAY TO STAY SANE
Nothing like a little imagination while attending Indoctrination U.
http://greensrealworld.blogspot.com/2009/05/how-students-handle-indoctrination-u.html
May 2, 2009 - 1:05 pm 7. Taylor Carmichael:Worth noting that with Spector’s defection, all the Republicans on the judiciary committee are 100% pro-life, and get a 0 rating from NARAL. This is important because under Senate rules, a Republican would have to vote to stop a filibuster. If Obama nominates a judge who dehumanizes the unborn and signs off on partial-birth abortion, the Republicans can and should push back hard.
May 2, 2009 - 1:35 pm 8. Sebastian Shaw:YES. The real question is how radical will the Supreme Court candidate be? As long as the MSM plays Obama’s defense, Obama will be given carte blanch…
May 2, 2009 - 2:12 pm 9. bobbcat:I missed the part in the Constitution where the US SC is supposed to be delving into the ‘redistribution of wealth.’ I guess this is reflective of the sorry quality of the public education I received.
It really is too bad people were not aware (in time for the election) that this is the nature of ‘change’ this man is after. Lord help us all.
May 2, 2009 - 3:41 pm 10. Meryl:9.bobbcat
“It really is too bad people were not aware (in time for the election) that this is the nature of ‘change’ this man is after.”
Audio tapes, in obama’s own voice (recordings of a radio interview) from the late 1990’s were played, repeatedly, on the airwaves prior to the election–tapes in which he clearly stated that he was frustrated with the contents and limitations and problems with the constitution of the United States of America.
If people were not aware of this, it’s because they didn’t want to know. It was not hidden. It was not a big secret. It was played repeatedly on radio programs and I saw the transcriptions of it on the internet.
If people do not want to actually understand what’s going on, there is very little than can be done about it.
Unfortunately, we now have millions and millions of people in the country, lips firmly fixed to the public tit, who have no intention of actually understanding what’s going on, as long as the checks keep coming.
The information was out there for anyone to find and read and hear.
May 2, 2009 - 5:07 pm 11. Delia:10. Meryl,
Exactly right. Those of us who saw right through Zero’s empty suit rhetoric were horrified and when we spoke up we were called loons or ‘fringe’ or right wing nutters.
Now when more and more of the ‘obvious’ comes to light, there are still the idiots who are blindly and merrily following 0bama off the cliff into Marxist/Nazi/Socialist/Communist territory.
Unfortunately, most voters for B.O. are clueless.
May 2, 2009 - 5:23 pm 12. Peter Leavitt:St. Obama, the fellow of great concern for mere fetuses with such chutzpah to be born alive and Chrysler bond holders, is a paragon of empathy. With justices of empathy, we need to hang on tightly to our wallets.
May 2, 2009 - 5:27 pm 13. BBub:What a question! I hear he is contacting Nancy Reagan, Newt Ginrich and the NRA for potential nominees.
May 2, 2009 - 6:16 pm 14. fred:Looking at the ages and composition of the Court, after Souter it would appear that only Ginsburg is going to be replaced in Obonga’s likely only term in office.
Souter was a stealth Leftist on the Court. His replacement will bring no surprises, and most certainly will be better vetted than Souter was back in 1990. It was rare that Souter voted with the conservatives on the court, so his replacement will not materially change the ideological mix on the Court.
And Obonga can get whomever he wants, whenever he wants it. Good to be King, eh, Obonga? Enjoy it, because you’re outta there in 2013. But watch your budget, because pretty soon you are going to need more money from Soros to pay for Michelle’s shoe collection.
May 2, 2009 - 7:35 pm 15. bobbcat:Thank you, Delia, for reminding us all of the grim fact that we have all been dragged down this horrid road by so many who don’t know their asses from a hole in the ground.
May 2, 2009 - 8:14 pm 16. The Shadow:Delia:
“I firmly believe that 0bama studied the Constitution not to uphold it but rather to tear it apart much like computer hackers study a program or operating system so that they can ‘reverse engineer’ it.”
By your every post you stamp yourself as a class A Dope!
May 2, 2009 - 8:46 pm 17. JOHN FRARY:IF EMPATHY IS THE DECISIVE CRITERION WHY SELECT JUDGES FROM THE LEGAL PROFESSION. LAW SCHOOLS OFFER NO CLASSES IN EMPATHY. LAWYERS HAVE NO MORE BETTER TO SENSITIVITY THAN PLUMBERS. SOME MIGHT ARGUE THEY HAVE LESS.
IT MAKES MORE SENSE TO CHOOSE THE NEW JUSTICE FROM THE RANKS OF VETERINARIANS.
May 3, 2009 - 4:01 am 18. Delia:15. bobbcat,
You’re welcome. Kinda scary ain’t it?
~
16. The Shadow,
“Class A Dope”? Moi? Nahhhhhhhh.
Look in the mirror, child. I’m going to be generous and just crown you, “Queen of Denial”.
May 3, 2009 - 4:14 am 19. Meryl:16.TheShadow
Even in a one line post, you have to call names?
Obama specifically stated (I heard the audio) that it was his specific, intentional desire to change the “inadequate” provisions of the Constitution of the United States.
He specifically stated that he was frustrated that the Constitution did not command government to take more direct care of the people (i.e., make them dependent and bring them under more direct control, and “redistribute wealth” while he’s at it).
In your case, his frustration was apparently unnecessary. How do you like that back pocket you’re in?
May 3, 2009 - 5:40 am 20. bobbcat:18. Delia: “You’re welcome. Kinda scary ain’t it?
Indeed. It’d be nice (but of course it’s unconstitutional) if people could be subjected to a test before they approach the voting booth.
16. The Shadow: “By your every post you stamp yourself as a class A Dope!”
Perhaps you have not noticed, but ‘whack-a-mole’ is not a very popular game here. Perhaps you should save some of that pent-up energy over at DU’s forums.
May 3, 2009 - 7:33 am 21. sheesh:Here’s #1 . . . (I got a million of these)
“The fact of the matter is, they will institute a filibuster because the court is a last bastion of liberalism. They can’t win elections, so they want to rule by judicial fiat. The Republicans need to lead and change the filibuster rule. Stop threatening it, just end it.”
- Mark Levin
Now, here’s what I want you all to pay attention to . . . just how quickly and desperately these right wing carnival barkers rationalize their lack of principles. I love the smell of nuclear option in the morning . . . smells like . . . victory.
May 3, 2009 - 7:54 am 22. Brian Richard Allen:The next four years will see to the death and burial of the (self-and-own-culture-loathing un-and-anti-American moronic mobbed-up murtadd Muslim Mussolini-modeled modified-Marxist empty galabia, Mister Michelle Saul Jeremiah Joe Stalin Wright Bernadine Billy Dohrn Ayres Alinsky Frank Marshall Davisubambi AKA Bhussein) O’Zero Doctrine — or will see to the death of our beloved fraternal republic, the greatest nation there has ever been and/or can ever be — and to the death of the very Judeo-Christian/Western/Human Civilization we have — by our willing sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of gallons of our blood and by way of Trillions of our Dollars — long vanguarded. And must, forever –and lest it plunge into a new Dark Age from which it could never extract itself — guard!
(Likely, given its history, as often as not guard that Civilization’s actual, at one time-or-another and/or aspiring and most-often old-Euro-peon component states against the bloody barbarities it’s their wont to from time-to-time perpetrate against one another!)
Brian Richard Allen
May 3, 2009 - 8:05 am 23. Delia:Los Angeles CalifO’ZEROcated 90028
And the Far Abroad
20. bobbcat:
“Indeed. It’d be nice (but of course it’s unconstitutional) if people could be subjected to a test before they approach the voting booth.”
~
LOL! If I had my *wish*, I’d have an easy-to-grasp pamphlet handed out to every person who voted, explaining each issue [without partisan slant ha!] and giving a basic background of candidates and their history and what they stand for. With the MSM so left slanted, it’s little wonder why so many people are so ill informed. Shameful really. Not that that’s an ‘excuse’ with as much information as we have access to in this day and age but it would be nice to know people are voting on principles/issues rather than on a ‘D’ or an ‘R’ only.
Meh. Wishful thinking won’t get any of us too far though.
May 3, 2009 - 11:04 am 24. Fat Man:Given that BO will apoint a liberal based on his/her/its race, class, gender, sexual orientation, etc. I hope he goes full tilt. Lani Guinier!
The American people need to see this stuff in the light of day.
May 3, 2009 - 7:31 pm 25. G Alston:“Before you respond, listen to a little more of what the President had to say on the subject of what he was looking for in a Supreme Court Justice:…”
Who cares? The justice will be vetted according to the law.
What I *do* care about is the biblical nutjob faction of the right wing making enough noise that the candidate is embarrassingly (for us) attacked via the abortion litmus test. This should never be allowed to happen; the only thing it will do is pave the way for the left to insert a remarkably unsuitable candidate rather than a centrist. And although it shouldn’t happen, it will. Why? As Isaac Newton says, for every action there’s an equal and opposite reaction…
May 3, 2009 - 8:01 pm 26. talkischeap:Yes, empathy and sympathy is what we need in a supreme court justice, you know, sort of like the way the empathetic and sympathetic liberal majority voted in the Kelo decision in favor of eminent domain.
May 4, 2009 - 12:16 am 27. Mike D:Man, let’s hope so!
May 4, 2009 - 3:05 pm 28. acj:The only sensitive subject is abortion. Republicans are aware that abstinence is a wash. Sex is everywhere=it’s corporate. Unwanted babies makes welfare…YOU LOoSE.
May 4, 2009 - 6:31 pm 29. acj:Oh and by the way, Christianity? Dooh! This country, especially republican is basically Judeism. An eye for an eye. I am not anti-semetic, just the facts Mam.
May 4, 2009 - 6:35 pm 30. eor:If this is a Christian nation, I see Obama meeting expectations-got a problem with that?
I’m making bets that Bill or Hillary will get this job. Any takers
May 4, 2009 - 11:52 pm 31. sheesh:30 eor . . . I’ll take that bet.
May 5, 2009 - 7:32 am 32. typos_R_us:To get to the left of Souter, the Usurper will have to dig up Mao. Not sure what the Chi-Coms would want in trade.
May 5, 2009 - 4:41 pmStealth? Star Wars? Nancy Pelosi? Taiwan? All the above?
He wouldn’t have any trouble getting him confirmed, after all being dead makes Mao a solid Democratic voter. It would also prevent Justice Roberts from changing Mao’s mind on anything. Dead Communists being even more set in their ways then the average Congress critter. The only real problem would be telling him apart from Ginsberg.