Here’s a liberal lawyer more interested in intellectual honestly than with framing Samuel Alito’s “controversial” opinions in such a way that those who would oppose Alito can pluck from them a few disingenuous talking points.
Liberals who favor a particular judicial philosophy are not going to like Alito; this much is obvious, and it’s to be expected. But what they shouldn’t do is dissemble in their attempts to sink his nomination. Alito is a first class legal mind and an eminently qualified nominee who holds a clear and intellectually coherent judicial philosophy.
If liberals want to see a Ginsburg or Breyer voted onto the High Court in the future, they would do well to limit their disagreements with Alito to fact, and engage in a fair debate over both his record and his fitness for the Supreme Court.
Of course, I’m not really holding my breath. But at least Moon’s post—and here are a few more—gives me a degree of hope.
Unlike, say, this.
If liberals want to see Ginsburg or Breyer voted onto the high court in the future they should try to get their guy elected President first.
I went over to Pandagon and saw this:
Ya know, it must suck to live in such an evil country, surrounded by evil people who just refuse to listen to your obviously superior wisdom. I’ll bet Amanda spends all day grinding her teeth, right down to the gums.
Jay: I have a lot of fun trying to troll as a terminally-outraged lefty, but even I find it difficult to read through that site. So much material, but as a more moderate person politically, it reads as the blog-equivalent to nails on a chalkboard… They call the President the “Chimperor?” I may find terms like “Islamofascist” and “Idotarian” trite, but at least they attempt to convey meaning.
Mainstream America has a notorious track record for not giving a holy shit about protecting the rights of people they are not or think they never will be.
Sacre Merde!
Notorious?
I’ll chalk this up to Amanda being one of those ‘crazy kids with a blog’
or maybe she’s a Duran Duran fan.
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Has the left discovered that Alito is actually Jewish? That level of cunning, secretive, evil just doesn’t fit the Italian stereotype.
I had never seen an adult human female actually cram her head into her own vagina.
And then I read that Amanda Marcotte post.
Moon deserves a lot of credit. Such intellectual honesty is relatively rare.
Brett—Lucky thing too, or they’d never need us…
That’s old hat for Amanda.
Chimperor! Why didn’t I think of that!? Oh well, I’ve got Lancelot Link and Chim-Chim under my belt so what the hey…
I wish I hadn’t read the comments on the Pandagon post; very depressing. Those folks are beyond ridicule or satire and a fair number may need therapy. Lots of paranoid delusion, persecution complex, and delusions of grandeur. Or, more optimistically, maybe they don’t suffer from any clinical conditions at all but just forms of Hofstadter’s Syndrome.
Amanda gives us more proof that the left has no intention of ever trying to understand the Constitution or why we fought the British for our freedom.
In their self-centered minds, the Constitution means whatever they want it to at any given moment. The leaders of the left know this, and play to this ignorance and selfishness.
People like Kennedy, Schumer, Reid, Pelosi etc. don’t care what people with a clue (read: some relationship with logic) think about them, because their ultimate power lies in the ignorance (dare I say illiteracy?) of their base. Don’t anybody start thinking that truth or logic will sway these jackasses, because it has become too obvious that they don’t give a fig about either one. In the long run, how do you counter people whose target audience’s minds are either totally wasted on drugs, welfare, or ignorance?
Look out France, here we come!
Heh.
Is it me, or is Pandagon really asking Judge Alito if he’s stopped beating his wife yet?
Damn that evil patriarchy!