How can RINOs really fight against Kagan? (Alan Keyes)

World Net Daily ^ | 2010-05-14 | Alan Keyes

[rabscuttle385]

In a recent posting on my website, Loyal to Liberty, I said that no one should be surprised if Barack Obama seeks to put a radical, pro-abortion, pro- "gay rights" leftist on the Supreme Court. The tragic irony of America's current crisis lies in the fact that it will be very surprising if the GOP contingent in the U.S. Senate unites to mount a strong stand against her confirmation.

The usual contingent of the Obama faction's RINO fellow travelers will certainly line up to lend bipartisan credibility to the leftist media claque's propaganda about what a consensus-building "moderate" she is. But the real problem is that to take a strong stand against Kagan, the GOP must show real commitment to the constitutional principles she rejects and means to overturn.

Kagan espouses the "societal costs" doctrine of rights. (For more on the nature and pernicious effects of this doctrine, read this article at Loyal to Liberty.) She therefore discards the American founders' vision of a government constrained by respect for the God-ordained requirements of justice. She aims to allow the government to curtail or suppress the rights of the people whenever their exercise of rights interferes with the Obama faction's consolidation and control of power over all aspects of society's life.

This poses a threat to liberty that is not just a matter of the stand Kagan takes on this or that issue. It is a threat in principle to the very idea of constitutional government. Indeed, it strikes down the idea that there should be a "government of laws, not of men," i.e., that legitimate government must operate by way of just powers derived from the constitutional consent of the people, not by the expedient dictates of those who happen to amass superior power at any given time.

[rabscuttle385]

Unfortunately, for some years now the GOP leadership has chosen to adopt an approach to government based on its own brand of expediency. To keep the support of the conservative majority of the GOP's electoral base, they have paid lip service to issues that can only be seriously addressed in terms that respect the doctrine of unalienable rights the American founders set forth in the Declaration of Independence. Yet they have eschewed or driven from their midst anyone who consistently espouses and relies upon that doctrine. They have combined superficially conservative rhetoric with the promotion of people who willfully ignore or reject the premise of God-given rights, and who, like their supposed Democrat opponents, act upon the view that power, not God-ordained right or justice, is the defining aim of political life.

Nice to see someone talking some sense.

[wita]

How one person without a care in the world for the impact, is able to amass sufficient power to rule over millions of people. Of course the power principle under which this takes place will not be found in the doctrine and principles, enumerated in the Constitution of the United States or other founding documents.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Keyes takes a good swipe at the gay-Republican faction at the end. Well played.