Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
The woman is dumb and dangerous.
If she were dumb she would be easily dismissed. She’s not dumb, I suspect. Rather, like a snake oil salesman, she’s smart enough to say just enough to make the sale and not enough to expose the scam.
– Max
Yeah, she’s no Harriet Miers.
Nope — she’s BOTH dumb, snake-sneaky and intellectually dishonest.
Since Obama’s first pick for the Court was virtually guaranteed to be seated, I’m actually glad that he picked a stupid weasel like her. It kinda reminds me of his pick for VP — one that I’m sure he regrets on a daily basis.
Hopefully she’ll alienate the rest of the Justices (as she’s rumored to have done in her previous posts) and reflect badly upon the bunch of doofuses (doofi?) who put her in there. I can dream, can’t I?
Like John Cornyn, I have a tough time reconciling the mainstream judicial record, with the racially tinged comments to law students.
That said, I think, as a conservative, I will find her an improvement over the justice she replaces — meaning, she will find herself siding with the Roberts camp more often than Souter ever did.
Manifestly, she is far from intelligent, not dumb (dumb means that she cannot speak and she can).
More to the point, she’s being appointed by an outright communist who hates America. She will be far far more damaging to the US for the rest of her life than Souter ever was.
Ginsberg is next and the ONe will probably decide that he can get another even more radical activist on the court.
Randy Barnett is his name. I met him once at my law school. He’s a really nice guy.
How can she be “more damaging to the US … than Souter ever was”? He was with the liberal bloc on Planned Parenthood vs. Casey, Lee vs. Weisman, Rumsfeld vs. Padilla, and Bush vs. Gore. Can you get more to the left than those?
She will be over there on the social issues as well. But I am betting that on criminal law issues, such as Missouri vs. Seibert, she will be with Scalia and Roberts. For that alone, she will be an improvement on Souter.
Simple answer? Yes, yes she can. As I understand it liberal jurists appointed to the Supreme Court immediately pull harder to the left upon appointment. Her answers at the hearings were the most disingenuous and dishonest in my lifetime of watching such hearings. She is exactly the kind of justice that would agree with Chavez or Zelaya’s interpretations regarding mods to the constitution.