Fox: Kagan will help Obama realize his far-left vision for America
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[quote=Fox News]President Obama’s nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan tells us a great deal about the Supreme Court that the president wants to create as his lasting legacy to shape the future of this country. It’s a far-left vision for America.
Elena Kagan is an interesting pick for the Supreme Court. She graduated from Princeton and then Harvard, where she was an editor of Harvard Law Review. She clerked for a judge on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, then Thurgood Marshall on the Supreme Court. She worked for a top national law firm, served in the White House, then went into academia as a legal scholar and became dean of Harvard Law School. In 2009, she became U.S. solicitor general (the government’s top Supreme Court lawyer).
Everyone else is talking about those facts. But Obama picked her for other reasons.
First, she’s a liberal without a paper trail. She’s never been a judge or had to lay out her beliefs on hot-button issues. Yet, as I explain in my new book, "The Blueprint: Obama’s Plan to Subvert the Constitution and Build an Imperial Presidency," Obama (like President George W. Bush) has a massive vetting team in place, and the only candidates on his short list are people that have been vouched for by some of the president’s most trusted advisers, who have known her for years and have a firm grasp of her interpretation of the Constitution and what she believes the role of the courts is in our society. In fact, she’s a personal friend of President Obama, and he knows her well.
They know she’s a liberal. D.C. Circuit Judge Abner Mikva was a stridently far-left judge. And Justice Thurgood Marshall—whom Kagan calls her legal hero—was the most liberal Supreme Court justice in American history, with ultra-left views on every single constitutional issue.
Second, she’s a brilliant consensus-builder. Kagan is a charismatic person who’s very effective at winning people over to her way of thinking. She also has a proven ability to frame liberal ideas in such a way as to win over opponents. And to be fair, she also welcomes dissent in a friendly and engaging way that makes her a very likeable and pleasant person. She’s sure to wow some senators during confirmation, and then be able to try to recruit moderate justices to support liberal ideas if she’s confirmed to the Court.
And third, until April she was only 49 years old. At age 50, Kagan’s in fine health. She could be on the Court for 30 or 40 years. Just think about that—Americans could be seeing a Justice Kagan on the Court until 2040 or 2050. With her, President Obama is taking full advantage of the fact that Supreme Court justices hold lifetime appointments.
In my book, "The Blueprint" my co-author Ken Blackwell and I discuss the kind of Supreme Court that President Obama needs to advance his agenda for this country.
President Obama needs a Supreme Court that will rule that the Constitution allows the federal government to impose Obamacare’s individual mandate, ordering Americans how they must spend their own money. He needs a Supreme Court that will allow him to impose job-killing cap-and-trade and card-check rules through executive action, instead of legislation. He needs a Supreme Court that says you have a right to same-sex marriage—which the Constitution does not mention—but that you do not have a right to own a gun—which the Constitution explicitly mentions in the Second Amendment.
In short, President Obama needs a Supreme Court that will endorse his far-left vision for America. As we show in “The Blueprint,” much of Obama’s agenda is unconstitutional. It cannot survive unless he creates a Supreme Court in his own image, with justices who share his vision.
President Obama firmly believes he has found such a justice in Elena Kagan.
It’s no surprise that President Obama would nominate a solid liberal to the Supreme Court; we’d all be surprised if he didn’t. And Kagan certainly has impressive credentials. But make no mistake: Elena Kagan is a liberal—a brilliant, young, charismatic liberal—and President Obama picked her because he needs her on the Court.
If you’re an ultra-liberal president, you could not do better than Elena Kagan. President Obama is going to push for a quick nomination to keep the Senate from delving into her views and philosophy, and he’s counting on her impressive accomplishments and winning personality to ensure a quick confirmation.
America needs a national debate on the scope of federal power and the meaning of the U.S. Constitution. America now has a nominee to a lifetime position on our highest court.
Let the debate begin.[/quote]
[url]http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/05/10/ken-klukowski-obama-nominate-elena-kagan-harvard-law-school/[/url]
The News comment: Obama campaigned to the center, but governs to the way Left. (US political left, not EU political left)
And before somebody says it, "Glaber stop posting!"
What's with the"Glaber stop posting!"?
far-left? hahaha
Your democrats are our conservatives. Obama in particular is the equivalent of the Canadian Liberals.
Obama's going to rip traditional Christian values out of the heart of America and fill the gaping crevice with socialism and atheistic liberal immorality? What's the bad news?
[QUOTE=LCBADs;21871535]Obama's going to rip traditional Christian values out of the heart of America and fill the gaping crevice with socialism and atheistic liberal immorality? What's the bad news?[/QUOTE]
And you make it sound like it's a bad thing.
[QUOTE=PrismatexV8;21871550]And you make it sound like it's a bad thing.[/QUOTE]
Not really, he tried but I couldn't find anything bad about what he said.
[QUOTE=Gummylamb;21871559]Not really, he tried but I couldn't find anything bad about what he said.[/QUOTE]
That's easy for you to say.
[QUOTE=PrismatexV8;21871564]That's easy for you to say.[/QUOTE]
That's true, but still.
Barack Obama.
Ultra-liberal cyborg from outer space (that cannot use an iPod) is coming to break our traditional American values.
One Supreme Court Justice at a time.
Fair and balanced. :foxnews:.
[QUOTE=Sgt. Khorn;21871511]What's with the"Glaber stop posting!"?[/QUOTE]
Glaber has an unessecary bias against Obama (And an un-justified one too).
[QUOTE=Gummylamb;21871572]That's true, but still.[/QUOTE]
That's not the worst of it.
what are you doing prismatex
[QUOTE=JDK721;21871667]what are you doing prismatex[/QUOTE]
If you've seen any of my news topics it would be easy to figure out.
[QUOTE=Sgt. Khorn;21871511]What's with the"Glaber stop posting!"?[/QUOTE]
In his case. I don't know. But it sure is funny to watch.
Edit: Hold the phone.
That's an opinion piece. The only time I post those now is when they're related to the main article in some way.
Next time, check the address bar.
Most of the words in this article were some variations of "liberal". Boy, they're really trying to hammer it in you.
[QUOTE=PrismatexV8;21871689]If you've seen any of my news topics it would be easy to figure out.[/QUOTE]
Normally, from how many you make it's hard to miss.
[QUOTE=Wakka;21872294]Most of the words in this article were some variations of "liberal". Boy, they're really trying to hammer it in you.[/QUOTE]
Yep, that's how propaganda works.
brb shitting outside fox news
"The Blueprint: Obama’s Plan to Subvert the Constitution and Build an Imperial Presidency." Sounds like a great read.
Considering what Obama would like to do, it's far better than the Orwellian police state the Bush dynasty had in mind. :colbert:
Far fucking left?
God give me strength.
[QUOTE=A.C.I.D;21874262]Far fucking left?
God give me strength.[/QUOTE]
God wun be able to give you strength if Obamer socializes the countreh.
:foxnews: :patriot: GET IM OUT OF OFFICE TO SAVE AMERICA FROM FREEDOM-HATIN' SOCIALIST HIPPIE NAZI TERRORISTS :patriot: :foxnews:
[QUOTE=Madman_Andre;21874098]Considering what Obama would like to do, it's far better than the Orwellian police state the Bush dynasty had in mind. :colbert:[/QUOTE]
I agree with this.
I find it amusing that the US's view of 'Left' is somewhere roughly to the right of Liberals (I.E. The middle) everywhere else in the world.
[QUOTE=DireAvenger;21871589]Glaber has an unessecary bias against Obama (And an un-justified one too).[/QUOTE]
How do you have an 'unnecessary' or 'unjustified' bias?
It's a sad day when your people are so far right they can't tell the difference between the center and the left.
[QUOTE=Janus Vesta;21875566]It's a sad day when your people are so far right they can't tell the difference between the center and the left.[/QUOTE]
I'd call that a good day.
Anyone think or agree that anointing someone who has zero experience to the supreme court and a very concerning view of the constitution a tiny bit of a [b]bad[/b] idea?
