Posted on 08/19/2009 9:07:39 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
A few weeks ago the Weekly Standard had a ridiculously hopeful editorial about how President Obama couldn't possibly go any further to the left with his next SCOTUS pick because of the ideological basis upon which they sold Justice Sotomayor. For the Standard, Terry Eastland was sure that the logic by which Sotomayor was sold to the country would preclude a shift leftward for the next court pick. Unfortunately, Eastland proved once again that too many conservatives simply do not understand that liberalism does not rely on logic or consistency , it simply barrels forward with no heed to reason. You see, liberals are powermongers, not logicians. They only care about what wins not that their logic is consistent moment to moment. Eastland's complete lack of understanding shows why conservatives are sideswiped by liberals every time.
Eastland's main point was that during the confirmation process, Judge Sotomayor "dissented from her sponsor's view of what a judge should be" by presenting her judicial philosophy as one based on a strict interpretation of the law. This, Eastland notes, is in stark contrast to President Obama's apparently long-held belief that a judge needed "empathy" to be a good jurist.
Eastland notes that in 2005, then Senator Obama voted against the confirmation of Chief Justice John Roberts "precisely because... the nominee came up short on the empathy measure." Eastland then points out that early in the four-day-long confirmation process Sotomayor began "separating herself from Obama on the matter of empathy" and that her testimony eventually made explicit the difference between the nominee and her patron on that point.
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
And they are being sandbagged with healthcare as well. Liberals live in a world where public opinion only matters when it benefits them. As a matter of fact, they live in a closed world where they listen to their own polls, bring union thugs to their townhalls and watch their own news and movies. In short, they agree with them and damn everyone else because everyone else simply isn’t. This insulation helps them to act in a manner whereby they know what is best for everyone else.
We trust because we want to be trusted.
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