Friday, July 29, 2005

Leftist casuistry, Lesson XVI

We hear a lot from the likes of NY's lipless distaff Senator -- Schumer, that is -- about the need to reject "judicial activists" nominated to the Supreme Court. But what is "judicial activism"? Well, where we come from, it entails brushing aside the letter of the Constitution and the general supremacy of state legislatures when adjudicating a case -- perhaps even deferring to international opinion over the intent of the white, Christian males who forged the Constitution.

By this definition, Ruth Ginsburg, Earl Warren and William Brennan, among too many others, are/were judicial activists.

Under Schumer's warped definition, however, any Justice who might reverse a decision intially based upon judicial activism is ... A JUDICIAL ACTIVIST!!!

This is the same clear thinking that brands a tax cut -- which returns money to the entity from which it was initially STOLEN -- as a GIVEAWAY to that entity.

Remember folks, we're the dumb ones!