Posted on 05/14/2010 6:53:11 PM PDT by Steelfish
Are Liberals Anti-WASP? by Patrick J. Buchanan 05/14/2010
"A chorus of black commentators and civic leaders has begun expressing frustration over (Elena) Kagan's hiring record as Harvard dean. From 2003 to 2009, 29 faculty members were hired: 28 were white and one was Asian American." CNN pundit Roland Martin slammed "Kagan's record on diversity as one that a 'white Republican U.S. president' would be criticized for." This is an excerpt from the Washington Post about the rising anger in a black community, which voted 24-1 for Obama, that one of their own was once again passed over for the Supreme Court.
Not since Thurgood Marshall, 43 years ago, has a Democratic president chosen an African-American. The lone sitting black justice is Clarence Thomas, nominated by George H. W. Bush. And Thomas was made to run a gauntlet by Senate liberals. Indeed, of the last seven justices nominated by Democrats JFK, LBJ, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, one was black, Marshall; one was Puerto Rican, Sonia Sotomayor. The other five were Jews: Arthur Goldberg, Abe Fortas, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan.
If Kagan is confirmed, Jews, who represent less than 2 percent of the U.S. population, will have 33 percent of the Supreme Court seats. Is this the Democrats' idea of diversity? But while leaders in the black community may be upset, the folks who look more like the real targets of liberal bias are white Protestants and Catholics, who still constitute well over half of the U.S. population.
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Are there any other kind?
Eric Cantor.Norm Coleman wasn’t very ;iberal either.
I guess most Jews who go into politics are liberal as hell.
I’m Jewish and definitely not lberal.Not neo-con either.Buchanan has a hangup with Jews.Too bad,because he has some good points on immigration and liberals in general.
I really resent his insinuations that Jews avoid military service.I am a disabled Vietnam veteran-two of my cousins served there too,and eveyone in the family served in WW2(well,a whole bunch anyway),even had one in WW1.
Buchanan got a 4F or something.
I can’t stand the idea of upper west side NY Kagan on SCOTUS.
Last I looked Reid,Pelosi,Whitehouse,Gore weren’t Jews.It’s liberals.
I do have to say a lot of Jewish liberals make great efforts to be noticed for their idiotic beliefs.I don’t know what to make of it.It’s not like I’m welcome in such circles.
I think Buchanan is a turd for generalizing like he does.
On the Supreme Court, we will have no representation for the first time in history.
The last protestant is retiring.
Pat is both right and wrong here. His point that the left is anti-WASP is quite true. The Democrats have since the 1880s been a collection of those with grievances against the majority. The preacher, who cost Republican James Blaine (himself half-Catholic with a nun for a sister) the election in 1884 with the line that the Democrats were the party of Rum (urban poor, many of whom were alcoholics), Romanism (a derisive term for Catholics) and Rebellion (Southerners), was quite correct if impolitic. The FDR coalition of Southerners, white ethnics (Catholics and Jews), labor, and Northern Blacks was an extention of this. And it has re-invented itself with every generation. The only difference today is that the Scotch Irish (ironically the first group reached out to in this manner) are now lumped in with WASPs.
A majority of Americans are Protestants and it is wrong that no member of the founding population of the US is on the court. Of course, while Jews certainly are over-represented, but 2/3 of this court is now Catholic. I don’t see the German-Irish Catholic Buchanan complaining about this now or back when President Bush nominated Alito. Buchanan reaffirms himself as a antisemitic hypocrite. But don’t think that the issue of the US Supreme Court being Protestant-less is irrelevant.
Kagan is a communist and Obama would like nothing more than useful idiots to make this a Jewish issue so that the man protecting Iran’s nuclear program from Israel can scream “antisemitism”.
No, Buchanan is not. He did not complain when the Court became 2/3 Catholic with Alito.
Pat doesn't point the finger at Jews. He points the finger at Democrats who have not nominated a white, Christian to the court in nearly 50 years. 50 years! Not so for Republicans, who have nominated protestants to the court, the most recent being Harriet Miers (who would have been a disaster), David Souter, Robert Bork, Rehnquist, and O'Connor. The Republican presidents chose protestants to fill 5 out of the last 8 vacancies with two being rejected in favor of Catholic candidates (one only after the failed nomination of a Jew, Douglas Ginsburg).
Last point. Out of the Catholics on the court (Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, Kennedy, Sotomayor, and Alito) who would you rather not have?
Out of the Jews on the court (Ginsburg, Breyer, and Kagan she'll be confirmed, we all know it) who would you rather not have?
Pat is Scotch-Irish. Not Irish. Most Scotch-Irish are Presbyterian, not Catholic (Buchanan is an exception to the rule). Anyone who claims to have supported Buchanan at one time surely should know this.
Maybe Senators... but are you going to argue that Eric Cantor is really an ultra-liberal?
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several state legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several states, shall be bound by oath or affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.
Are you going to argue that Eric Cantor is typical of Jewish Senators or Representatives? I don't think he is. Most are ultra-leftists. He's probably the black sheep of his family.
List of Jewish-American Politicians
Pat's article correctly points the finger at Democrats and tries to sow the seeds of dissension among ethnic and blue-collar Democrats (Reagan Democrats, remember?). Howard Dean wanted to keep them in the party and tried to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks. These people are generally more socially conservative than the rest of their party. They can't stand East coast liberals/socialists with degrees from Harvard and Yale. Pointing out that Democrats have not nominated one of their kind in almost 50 years is a perfect way to show how they are being taken for granted.
Instead we get the idiots who change the headline in order to attack solid conservatives like Pat. Then the cabal of morons pops up to constantly malign and slander the guy and his family. Sleazebags all of you.
Sure you would.
We on the Right routinely condemn the Progressive Fascists because they want to pick and choose which parts of the US Constitution to obey and which parts to ignore.
We on the Right are not exempt from living up to that same standard
Answer the question please.
Pat doesn't point the finger at Jews.
Pat considers the Democrats dominated by Jews. QED.
Last point. Out of the Catholics on the court (Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, Kennedy, Sotomayor, and Alito) who would you rather not have?
Kennedy and Sotomayor.
Out of the Jews on the court (Ginsburg, Breyer, and Kagan she'll be confirmed, we all know it) who would you rather not have?
All of them. Lox loving leftists mean nothing to me. (Except when I'm standing in line at Zabars.)
Pat is Scotch-Irish. Not Irish. Most Scotch-Irish are Presbyterian, not Catholic (Buchanan is an exception to the rule). Anyone who claims to have supported Buchanan at one time surely should know this.
It was an assumptions given the rarity of Catholic Scots-Irish. 99 out of 100 times, I'd be correct.
Well Pat has missed his “stopped clock” moment on this one.
I don’t care what the race, religion or ethnicity of SCOTUS members are, provided that they interpret the law in accordance with the US Constitution, rather than make it up.
The fact that Kagan won’t do this is the only reason to oppose her.
No. There should only be people who will interpret the law according to Constitution. Race, ethnicity, religion and state are irrelevant.
Of course the SCOTUS doesn’t do too well in that category either. We have four that interpret the law, four that will make it up, and one that’s iffy.
Buchanan complained when the "wise Latina" (a Catholic) was nominated. His criticism is aimed at liberals, not just Jewish liberals. Why do you attack Buchanan, when you should be attacking Kagan? I wonder? Is this just another opportunity to smear a good man and an attempt to intimidate others who might have similar views into keeping silent about their concerns?
Given his persistant desire to name Jewish neoconservatives (and ignore Catholic ones)and his animosity to the Jewish State, it is hard not to draw an inference.
Blah, blah, blah. It is ironic that if you criticize those that are pushing an agenda which is harmful to this country's interests and if those pushing it happen to be majority Jewish, you will be labeled an anti-semite by the professional race/religion pimps. You are no better than Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson or Abe Foxman. Catholic neoconservatives like "Dollar" Bill Bennett where also a frequent target of his ire.
Out of the Catholics on the court (Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, Kennedy, Sotomayor, and Alito) who would you rather not have?
Kennedy and Sotomayor.
Kennedy is a Supreme Court justice that votes with the conservatives a majority of the time. He is acceptable although not perfect. Ginsburg, Breyer, and Kagan are all totally unacceptable. All the Catholic justices were chosen by Republican presidents. All of the Jewish justices were chosen by Democrats. Criticism of the Democratic appointments is still acceptable here on Free Republic, regardless of their religious affiliation.
It was an assumptions given the rarity of Catholic Scots-Irish. 99 out of 100 times, I'd be correct.
You claimed to have supported Buchanan in the past and actually worked for his campaign. Pat has made mention of his heritage on several occasions and I would expect that someone working to get him elected would know this.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Yes, he is.
The court is now going to become 0% Protestant.
That is a problem.
“The fact is that Jews and blacks are currently way over represented at the highest levels of the government.”
Yeah, Jews especially need to be held back. They’re clever and greedy.
I mean, look at how they have about 1/2 of the hard science Noble prizes.
And invented all those nasty things like the Salk vaccine to end polio.
We HAVE to keep the dirty Jews in check. Too many of them. Tooo successful.
Maybe special neighborhoods. Let’s call ‘em “ghettos.”
And if Obama selected Thomas Sowell for the Supreme Court would black leaders be happy or would they denigrate the man?
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