IMO, there's nothing wrong with asking Sotomayor tough but pertinent questions. Since when do we take marching orders from the MSM & DNC? If we don't make our case in a very public way the only thing the public will hear is the DNC/MSM world view.
Look at what John Hinderaker @ Power Line said below. I think a principled conservative rebuttal to what is happening to America both on the fiscal & social engineering fronts is crucial. And the Sotomayor hearings are as good as any to do so.
<< As many commentators have observed, "empathy" is really a cover for lawlessness. But it's actually worse than that, because empathy, as that term is used by Obama, is inherently selective.
Does Obama mean that his nominee will have empathy for the unborn? Well, no. He doesn't have in mind that kind of empathy. How about empathy for taxpayers and small business owners? No, that isn't exactly the right sort of empathy either.
Obama's favorite example of the right kind of empathy is Lily Ledbetter. As Paul has pointed out, Lily Ledbetter was a liar with a lousy case that was properly barred by the statute of limitations. What "empathy" is at work here? Empathy with unions and, perhaps even more important, the people who profit more than anyone else when lousy cases are kept alive in the courts--plaintiffs' lawyers, among the largest contributors to the Democratic Party. What Barack Obama means by an "empathetic" judge is one who has his or her thumb on the scale on behalf of politically favored groups. >>**
Then he knocks it out of the park tieing in "empathy" to the use of Foreign Law as a precedent;
<< Did those judges look for guidance to the laws of Muslim countries when they ruled in Lawrence v. Texas that there is a constitutional right to sodomy? Of course not. That isn't the sort of "foreign law" they have in mind. Reference to foreign law, like empathy, is inherently selective, since laws in various countries conflict, and is really a cover for a judge's imposition of his own political preferences or for resolving an issue favorably to a politically favored group. >>**Link
And when the pols & MSM cry racism & spew their calumny, call them on it with some Cheney like backbone. |
