printDoesn’t Pat Buchanan know that diversity is code for displacing da white man? Bush tried hard to appoint a woman simpleton to the SCOTUS, but the Party kicked him so hard for Harriet Miers, whose mind was even more pedestrian than SotoSoAndSo, that he withdrew her nomination and gave us the non-diverse Alito and Roberts.
Still, some interesting points from Pat:
“What kind of diversity is this – either in geography or life experience?
While Sotomayor went to Yale Law School, the other three liberals went to Harvard, though Ruth Bader Ginsburg graduated from Columbia. Seems a fairly narrow range for a party that once claimed to be America’s party.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg tied for first in her class at Columbia, but neither Obama nominee is academically distinguished. Sotomayor called herself an ‘affirmative action baby’ who, at Princeton, was urged to read children’s books in the summer to improve her reading and writing skills. Kagan never served as a judge, never litigated a case before being named solicitor general, never wrote a book or anything else anyone has turned up that manifests real legal scholarship.
From her Princeton thesis on the sad demise of 20th-century socialism, to her tears at the defeat of the radical liberal Senate candidate Elizabeth Holtzman in 1980, to her hostility to the U.S. military on the Harvard campus while dean of the law school, Kagan has revealed herself to be one more Ivy League leftist anxious to use a lifetime seat on the court, winning the plaudits of her peers by imposing her ideology on a nation that has never voted for it.
Conservatives will not soon get another opportunity like this to take down Ivy League pretensions to represent and rule America.”
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Back at the farm, liberals really do worship their magic mulatto. The mind boggles at this utterance from MSNBC’s LAWRENCE O‘DONNELL, sitting in for odious Ed of “THE ED SHOW”:
“… we don‘t know a lot about Kagan, but we do know a lot about the man who appointed her. Barack Obama is the wisest and most learned legal scholar ever to occupy the White House. That‘s who Kagan would have had to fool if she really were some sort of stealth conservative.”
Update (May 15): Remember: BHO, author of bestsellers, and not one law journal article (no that that means a thing) is being hailed as greater than Thomas Jefferson, lawyer (as far as I know), legal and political philosopher, author of the Declaration of Independence and generally a genius.
This is sick stuff (but then so is it sick to credit Palin with doing battle for Jeffersonian liberties).
The thing is, liberals are all “true believers, and you can’t make them see reason. Or, to put it another way, as Ron White said, “you can’t fix stupid”.
I don’t think there’s much danger of Kagan being a closet conservative. As far as Obama being wise and learned I snorted milk and wheaties through my nose when I read that. I realize that hacks like Lawrence O’Donnell and Chris Matthews have to spout the party line about Obama but these yutzes seem to actually believe what they say.
I do wish conservatives would stop complaining about liberal “hypocrisy” or “double standards.” All liberalism boils down to is Kill the West, and liberals argue in good faith about as often as their Bolshevik forbears did.
Mr. Buchanan is right but it’s more than just a lack of diversity at work here.
As a result of Ivy League inbreeding, suffused with Critical Theory and Deconstructionism in lieu of a classically Liberal education, the ‘elite’ are now easily spotted. They’re the moral and intellectual hydrocephalics, like the recent Rhodes scholar president who could ponder the unlimited definitions of ‘is’ and his immediate successors – each more degenerate than their predecessor.
All in all, I’d rather have a North Idaho College grad in charge.
Even though Pat is Catholic, I like how he points out they are overrepresented on the SC. If Kagan is confirmed, the Court will consist of three Jews and six Catholics (who represent not quite a fourth of the country), but not a single Protestant, though Protestants remain half the nation and our founding faith.
It does seem strange that no descendants of the people we owe for this nation are on the SC.
“Politics is another form of entertainment.”
So said a family member to me last year.
So, are we surprised that a “journalist” would utter such BS?
After all Obama is just another entertainer. Ditto for the buffoon Lawrence O’Donnell. Both have Mickey Mouse credentials.
Roger, you owe Mickey Mouse an apology!
Wouldn’t Lincoln and Wilson be considered better lawyers than Obama?
I hope Cameron is a closet Conservative. I have just seen news programme about immigration in the UK. Cameron has said that he will reduce immigration to tens of thousands a year from the hundreds of thousand it currently is. Let’s hope so.
Don’t think Kagan will be defending Jan Brewer though.
You may be right James. There is probably nothing wrong with Kagan being a closet conservative. And Obama might have a good reason for nominating her to the Supreme Court. I just hope it’s not something caused by politics.
There is an article on the Huffington Post called “Pat Buchanan: Too Many Jews on the Supreme Court,” with more than 3,000 comments, mostly bashing him.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/14/pat-buchanan-too-many-jew_n_576948.html
It links to a Media Matters article with a similar headline: “Buchanan complains that with Kagan, Supreme Court will have too many Jews.”
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201005140037
While I did not find the original column among Buchanan’s better pieces, I do find it fascinating – and more than a little frightening – how it is being so willfully misrepresnted. And as a former copy editor, I understand the importance of an attention-grabbing headline – but this is ridiculous.
(1) It is completely idiotic to think that Kagan, Breyer, and Ginsburg represent Ayn Rand, Leon Trotsky, Menachem Schneerson, and Joe Lieberman because they are Jewish. Did Douglas and Ruth Ginsburg agree with each other on the DC Circuit Court? Do Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy represent Little Anthony and the Imperials? This whole ethnic diversity kick is a disease now pervading both right and left in America.
[Excellent observation. Spot on.]
(2) The other perverse assumption that is dubious is “Ivy League equals Genius”. Hence all Supreme Court nominees from Ivy League schools are, by definition, all brilliant. And the Obamas (Columbia, Princeton, Harvard Law) are brilliant – not from anything they wrote but from the name of their alma mater. It is no more valid than assuming “Black equals Dummy”. Meanwhile, my boss, who attended University of Scranton was able to accomplish for $ 1 million what the Defense Department had not done for $ 200 million – but, heck, he didn’t go to Princeton so he’s a jerk! The assumption confuses averages (the average Harvard student does better than the average U of Idaho student) with individual performance.
“The world is becoming more tribal.”
Or so said the late Richard Estrada.
Estrada had a Master’s in history from the University of Chicago, and was a syndicated columnist for the Dallas Morning News. He was also a board member of the Federation for American Immigration Reform.
I think he was on to something.
Ditto for Myron’s comment.
But multi culti plus open borders has Balkanized the Republic.
The question few ask: How will it all end?
I already know the answer,but why not Janice Brown?!?! She’s the kind of thinker needed on the Supreme court.