{"id":206,"date":"2010-05-10T20:31:58","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T03:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=206"},"modified":"2010-05-11T08:58:08","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T15:58:08","slug":"bork-barrell-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=206","title":{"rendered":"BORK BARREL POLITICS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama\u00a0nominated\u00a0Elena Kagan to the United States Supreme Court.\u00a0 Let\u2019s see, she is a lesbian, anti-military, tree-hugging, radical socialist from Chicago with zero judicial experience.\u00a0 Perfect!\u00a0 What\u2019s pathetic is that she is probably the most acceptable appointment we could even hope to get from Obama.\u00a0 Since she is already 50 years old, we only have to put up with this nonsense for about 30 to 40 years.<\/p>\n<p>What is really sad is that all of the above is well-known by the main stream media, including Fox News, but it is being ignored.\u00a0 They are all afraid to have anyone think that any of this matters.\u00a0 The following excerpts from her college thesis are enough to justify denying her appointment to any judicial position:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/209.157.64.200\/focus\/news\/2510390\/replies?c=11\">http:\/\/209.157.64.200\/focus\/news\/2510390\/replies?c=11<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is not denied it is just dismissed as irrelevant.\u00a0 Really?\u00a0 Read the following and it becomes clear that Kagan is another extreme radical determined to transform this country.\u00a0 Sadly, if Republicans do not squash this outrageous nomination, she will be given ample opportunity to do exactly that:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0\u201cThrough its own internal feuding, then, the SP [Socialist Party] exhausted itself forever and further reduced labor radicalism in New York to the position of marginality and insignificance from which it has never recovered. The story is a sad but also a chastening one for those who, more than half a century after socialism\u2019s decline, still wish to change America. Radicals have often succumbed to the devastating bane of sectarianism; it is easier, after all, to fight one\u2019s fellows than it is to battle an entrenched and powerful foe. Yet if the history of Local New York shows anything, it is that American radicals cannot afford to become their own worst enemies. In unity lies their only hope.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So what if she tried to ban military recruiters from Harvard.\u00a0 So what if she is openly gay.\u00a0 (The two are related: one of the primary reasons she opposed the military was because of the \u201cmoral injustice\u201d of the don\u2019t ask don\u2019t tell policy.)\u00a0 Even Ruth Bader\u00a0Ginsburg decided\u00a0against Kagan on this one!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/2010\/05\/10\/kagans-paper-trail\/\">http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/2010\/05\/10\/kagans-paper-trail\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So what if she has never decided a case and there is no documentation of her thought process regarding major judicial decisions.\u00a0 In the deluded minds of the liberal left the only true value is political correctness.\u00a0 \u00a0Our traditional values are irrelevant to the few, the proud, the chosen, intellectual elite.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The following article from Jewish World Review demonstrates that\u00a0Kagan is a secular humanist who will forgive anything if the person\u2019s world viewpoint is politically correct:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishworldreview.com\/0510\/kagan_blemish_gahr.php3\">http:\/\/www.jewishworldreview.com\/0510\/kagan_blemish_gahr.php3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The plagiarism in this case was not an isolated incident, it was pervasive.\u00a0 Ironically it involved a book about the liberal left\u2019s successful strategy\u00a0to deny Robert Bork\u2019s appointment to the Supreme Court,\u00a0because he could not pass the liberal litmus test.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Republicans need to take a stand against allowing this radical a life time appointment to the Supreme Court.\u00a0 We need to demand that they resist this just as strongly and just as effectively as the Democrats resisted the nomination of Robert Bork.\u00a0 I suggest we borrow from the strategy used by Ted Kennedy:<\/p>\n<p>Here is what Kennedy said:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cRobert Bork&#8217;s America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would <a title=\"Racial segregation\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Racial_segregation\">sit at segregated lunch counters<\/a>, rogue police could break down citizens&#8217; doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about <a title=\"Evolution\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Evolution\">evolution<\/a>, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of the Government, and the doors of the Federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is\u2014and is often the only\u2014protector of the individual rights that are the heart of our democracy&#8230; President Reagan is still our president. But he should not be able to reach out from the muck of <a title=\"Iran-Contra affair\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iran-Contra_affair\">Irangate<\/a>, reach into the muck of Watergate and impose his reactionary vision of the Constitution on the Supreme Court and the next generation of Americans. No justice would be better than this injustice.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>None of what Kennedy said was true about Robert Bork or his position on any issue,\u00a0but, sadly, all of the following is very true with regard to Elena Kagan.\u00a0 Here is the speech Republicans should give now:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Elena Kagan\u2019s America will be a country we no longer recognize.\u00a0 It will be a country where gay marriage will be imposed by an activist judiciary that believes its own moral value system is the only one that matters.\u00a0 It will be a country where freedom of religion primarily means freedom from Christianity.\u00a0 It will be a country where the capitalism that made us the most prosperous nation on earth will be replaced by a socialist redistribution of wealth.\u00a0 It will be a country where political correctness is more important than abiding by the law or well-established ethical standards.\u00a0 President Obama is still our president, but he should not be able to reach out into the cesspool of his radical past to impose his reactionary vision of the Constitution on the Supreme Court and the next generation of Americans.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kennedy got it right.\u00a0 \u201c<strong><em>No justice would be better than this injustice<\/em><\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>TDM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama\u00a0nominated\u00a0Elena Kagan to the United States Supreme Court.\u00a0 Let\u2019s see, she is a lesbian, anti-military, tree-hugging, radical socialist from Chicago with zero judicial experience.\u00a0 Perfect!\u00a0 What\u2019s pathetic is that she is probably the most acceptable appointment we could even &hellip; 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