My Take

The media recently is once again acting like a teenager in love. We have seen it more in the past year then in anytime in history. First it was with Obama, a love affair which has yet to end, but i feel it will once they all realize that all of the "saviour's" claims and promises will not happen.

But this time its all ga-ga over Sonia Sotomayor's Confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill. I am tired of hearing them proclaim her as the equavalent of Mother Theresa to the courts of this country. I sit back and watch our politicians in Washington and their reactions and there are a few things that irk me.

Why is it that a certain party in power now is acting like cops over these proceedings. They are demanding that the "others" be nice to nominee and not in any way demean this person. But it is funny that when they are not in power they are the total opposite. Need and example just look at any conservative nominee in the last 20 years and see what kind of treatment they received. I understand fighting for your beliefs and your own kind, but this is a little Do As I Say, Not As I Do isn't it.

Why is it that the party that is not in power is tip toeing around some major items that have come up with the nominee, that go against their core beliefs? On second thought i know, it is because they have turned their back on their core belief's and tend to rally behind only a couple of them (abortion and gays). But they seem to be a group of pansies when it comes to fighting back.

I personally believe that this nominee is not right for the supreme court. Not because she is a woman, or Latina, or a liberal. But because she believes that the courts are where policy happens, as she has mentioned on many occasions. It tells me that she believes that any court in this country has legislative powers, more so than the legislators. She believes that if she, as a judge, doesn't think that the Congress got a law right, that her (and judges like her) can simply change it from the bench. Which the last time i checked, the Constitution does not give that power. And frankly if any judge is for skirting the Constitution, then I am against them, even it if is one of my own parents. Our rights are our rights. And no one has the right to go against the rights given to us in the Constitution, not the courts, not the politicians, not the president, not even other citizens.


Viva Liberty!