Bush picked someone who is extremely to the right, but happens to be black. Republicans are putting out the word that a vote against her is a vote against African-Americans. Real African-American groups like the NAACP, however, are against her nomination.
Today's L.A. Times lists several quotations from speeches Brown has made. To me they were very upsetting. She does not think much of government. She thinks judges should rein in government! Here are parts of some of these quotations:
"Where government advances - and it advances relentlessly - freedom is imperiled, community impoverished, religion marginalized and civilization itself jeopardized.... In the modern welfare state, the source of wealth and power is the government. Government acts a giant siphon, extracting wealth, creating privilege and power, and redistributing it."
I must be old-fashioned, but I thought government is "of the people, by the people and for the people." I also was under the impression that wealth and power were created by Big Business, and that government should help the little guy against the powerful.
Here's more:
"It now appears that human nature is so constituted that, as in the days of empire all roads let to Rome; in the heydey of liberal democracy, all roads lead to slavery. And we no longer find slavery abhorrent. We embrace it. We demand more. Big government is not just the opiate of the masses. It is the opiate - the drug of choice - for multinational corporations and single moms, for regulated industries and rugged Midwestern farmers and militant senior citizens..."
I can't believe this. She is saying that liberal democracy leads to slavery, and we all love slavery! How on earth did she get to be a judge on the California Supreme Court?
More:
"It is my thesis today that the sheer tenacity of the collectivist impulse - whether you call it socialism or communism or altruism - has changed not only the meaning of our words, but the meaning of our Constitution and the character of our people.."
She is equating altruism with communism! Anyone who does something nice and doesn't expect to be paid with money is just as bad as a communist? Do we have so much altruism in the country that it is changing our Constitution? I am floored.
Still more:
"I have argued that collectivism was [and is] fundamentally incompatible with the vision that undergirded this country's founding. The New Deal, however, inoculated the federal Constitution with a kind of underground collectivist mentality. The Constitution itself was transmuted into a significantly different document ... in 1937, [which] marks the triumph of our own socialist revolution."
I had no idea that I was living in a socialist society. Is this the reason I keep hearing about Big Business frauds and scams? Is this the reason Big Business is constantly firing thousands of workers at a time? Is this the reason grocery workers are striking?
Another:
"In the last 100 years - and particularly in the last 30 - the Constitution, once the fixed chart of our aspirations, has been demoted to the status of a bad chain novel. Government has been transformed from a necessary evil to a nanny - benign, compassionate and wise..."
Among all the things I didn't know is that government is evil. Yes, it is benign, compassionate and wise, but it is evil. A necessary evil, but evil, nevertheless. Save me. Poor me, I thought that government was there to protect us and to help us.
Brown convicts herself with her own words. She does not like our government. She does not like what happened to our Constitution. Why does she want to be a judge?
More to the point: Why should we approve her as a judge? Frankly, I do not see why even Republican senators should vote for her. The only solution is FILIBUSTER!!
