The Perfect Storm

It appears the Republican Party is falling right into the political trap set by President Obama.  All indications suggest that they are not going to strongly oppose Judge Sonia Sotomayor during the confirmation hearings.

While the Democrat Party is rich with a history of public bigotry toward every minority group (their treatment of Justice Clarence Thomas and  Miguel Estrada was despicable), the Republican Party is obsessed with not offending a minority group, particularly the Hispanic minority.

Nobody understands this better than President Obama.  Judge Sotomayor represents everything the Republican Party will not touch with a ten-foot pole.  She is a woman and a Hispanic with a compelling life story.

Yet President Obama doesn't give a hoot about her minority status.  He doesn’t care about “empathy” either.  The compelling life story and the “empathy” launch strategy was to soften up the public to create the all American rags-to-riches character to which we can all “empathize.”

This way only a bunch of mean, bigoted, racist republicans would dare challenge a Hispanic minority woman who defied all odds and made it to the top on good old fashion traditional American values.

Never mind the fact that by virtue of her own admission, Judge Sotomayor is the antithesis of a Supreme Court Justice.  If ever there were a candidate based on his or her qualifications to strongly oppose in confirmation hearings, Judge Sotomayor is that candidate.

There are plenty of perfectly qualified Hispanic women who President Obama could have chosen, but they do not fit his purpose.  The fact that she is Hispanic or a woman is irrelevant.  President Obama wanted to create an opposition-proof, two-prong minority political wedge so that he could get one of his own on the bench.

President Obama falsely says that Judge Sotomayor interprets law but knows full well that she is not a constitutional jurist.  That is why he selected her.

Judge Sotomayor is not about interpreting law and upholding the Constitution, she is an anti-constitutionalist who makes policy from the bench from an extreme left radical position.

The Supreme Court ruled against her four times.  Three of those times were because they determined that she erred in her statutory interpretation.  In her own words seen and heard on tape Judge Sotomayor says that policy is written at the appellate court. The Supreme Court is an appellate court.

In his weekly address Friday, President Obama said he hoped “that we can avoid the political posturing and ideological brinksmanship that has bogged down this process, and Congress, in the past.”

Yet President Obama enjoys the unique distinction of being the first President in our history to have voted to filibuster a Supreme Court nominee.

President Obama believed that Justice Samuel Alito was qualified as a constitutional jurist and one who demonstrated judicial temperament, but he voted to filibuster his confirmation because of Justice Alito’s conservative ideology. 

In other words, President Obama was and is unconstitutionally concerned about the ideological make up of the Supreme Court.

This all boils down to good old fashion liberal democrat Chicago politics infused into our Supreme Court nomination process.  While President Obama seeks a clean process for his nominee, his process is anything but clean.  It is rotten to its core.  It is racist and identity politics at its worst.

President Obama seeks an anti-constitutionalist who makes radical, far left liberal policy from the bench.  For him to pull this off with very little opposition and get one of his own on the highest court in the land to do his dirty work, he needed a candidate that the republicans wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole.

Judge Sonia Sotomayor is his perfect storm.

Chuck

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