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With Stevens’ retirement, the court will be rid of a man whose utter indifference to the Constitution was evident in virtually all his opinions. While this is a good thing, I fear his indifference will be replaced with outright hostility, assuming that BHO selects another individual that reflects his own attitude toward the Constitution.
The rest of the issue of perceptions is this. America is a nation of ambivalent attitudes. We are nominally a meritocracy, not an aristocracy. We do believe that the better candidate should win. We won’t vote for someone who sounds like an idiot, but we also have a great distrust for intellectuals.
…the People have abdicated our duties…everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses. Juvenal.
All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else. H.L. Mencken.
France’s high court has rejected a carbon tax because 93% of industrial CO2 emissions would have been exempted from the tax. While striking down any law regarding a carbon tax is probably a good thing, the court’s reasoning leaves much to be desired…
I will not rest….BHO.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin.
There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as caring and sensitive because he wants to expand the government’s charitable programs is merely saying that he is willing to do good with other people’s money. P. J. O’Rourke.
Let the children have their night of fun and laughter, let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures. Winston Churchill.
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. John Adams.
