Here Comes The Judge

Whenever we are told about a nominee's "compelling" and "attractive" story it's as if a public relations campaign has already been put in place to innoculate us against any possible disapproval of the candidate and to distract us from paying too much attention to the judicial record. Nobody expected Obama to nominate someone who has respect for the original intent of the Constitution. "Empathy" is best left as the province of marriage counsellors. It is "Equal Protection Under The Law" with which we should be concerned not "Empathy Under The Law".

Judge Sotomayor's record is well known and displays, along with her public statements, a tendency, a desire, and even a conscious preference to legislate from the bench. Her "empathy", a code word for judicial activism, her lack of racial impartiality, and her doubtful intellectual rigor as an unbiased jurist, should disqualify her from having breakfast with Justice Antonin Scalia let alone from sitting beside him on the Supreme Court. It won't, of course. The glowing editorials have been prepared, the fawning magazine articles are in place, the tame morning show hosts have their sycophantic confections topped with the sweetest of icing at the ready, and doubtless the divine Oprah is about to dispense her benediction. The fix is in courtesy of the ringmaster himself, His Fraudulency Barack Obama.

As he attempts to plant his size 13 shoes on the moral high ground translating that position into power and advantage, he resorts to the political correctness that infects and corrodes everything he touches by proferring us a bullying mediocre jurist and strident product of affirmative action who already occupies a position above her competence. This is just another cynical effort in pandering tokenism, by Obama and his goons, to pull the wool over our eyes while trying to make us feel "empathy" for the nominee. Nice try. Next!