Knee-Jerk Socialists Use Old Playbook on Alito

[Bobby F.]

Knee-Jerk Socialists Use Old Playbook on Alito

January 4, 2006




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RUSH: I mentioned that the American Bar Association has come out with its best-ever, top drawer ruling on Alito's fitness. I forget what they call it, but he's well-qualified. It's the highest rating that they ever give a judicial nominee, and this has sent the left off into a tizzy, particularly the NAGs. Eleanor Squeal says that her opposition to Alito is not just knee-jerk, and in this sound bite here she goes on to spell out all the knee-jerk liberal talking points that they always use. He's worse than Scalia, he'll strip away women's rights, civil rights, turn back the clock, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. This is at the National Press Club today, a press conference on the Alito nomination with the NAGs, Eleanor Squeal squealing here.

SQUEAL: Many might say that, "The only reason you're doing this is you're knee-jerk Democrats, and you wouldn't approve anything that Bush appointed." And I want to make very clear that--

RUSH: Stop, stop, stop the tape. During the hearings for Judge Roberts, these same groups were asked if they've ever supported a Republican judicial nominee, "I don't believe we have." So you can say whatever you want to say, Ms. Squeal, but the bottom line is it is knee-jerk. Listen to the rest of this.

SQUEAL: -- that is not the case. We believe he will be the most reactionary judge on the court, further to the right of Mr. Scalia.

RUSH: Stop the tape! They say that about every nominee. That's part of the playbook knee-jerk response. He will be the most reactionary judge on the court, further to the right of Scalia.

SQUEAL: A person who will tip the court away from a pattern advancing the rights of women, advancing the rights of African-Americans and Latinos, but most important, a person who doesn't understand workers' rights or discrimination.

RUSH: Stop the tape! I'm sorry, folks, that is Soviet Union lingo. Workers' rights discrimination? We're living in 2006. We don't have sweatshops out there. Union membership in this country is at an all-time low. We live in a world that has passed these people by. Workers' rights? They are employees, they're associates. All this is a bunch of drivel.


SQUEAL: Of course we are concerned about reproductive rights. He will strip them away. Please don't let this country go this far backwards. We can't put it back together again. We can't bring Martin Luther King back. Civil rights and women's rights are at stake.

RUSH: Okay, so she denies that this is a knee-jerk opposition, and everything she says is right out of the knee-jerk handbook. It's the same thing they say about any nominee that any Republican president puts forth. Same press conference, Kim Gandy, the actual president of the NAGs. Here's a portion of what she said.

GANDY: His opinions are very erudite. They're in very legal language. He doesn't sound like Archie Bunker, but what he does in the final analysis is say that victims of sex and race discrimination can't get their day in court, that students who are sexually harassed in school, sexually abused, sexually assaulted, can't bring a lawsuit under the civil rights law. He joined the Concerned Alumni of Princeton, and the whole goal of the Concerned Alumni of Princeton was to keep women out of Princeton and to keep people of color out of Princeton, to keep their numbers down. He was so proud of it; he actually included that membership as evidence of his conservative credentials when he applied for a job with the Republican administration. And so we know that he was willing to work to keep women and people of color out of Princeton.

RUSH: All right. We know this, huh? Do you think that if one shred of that were true, that he would have ever been confirmed in the first place to sit as a federal judge or an appellate judge? This is hysteria. These people are unhinged. To compare him to Archie Bunker, to say he's just an Archie Bunker but he's smoother, he's just a smooth Archie Bunker. This is laughable, and it's panic time with these people.

I think what the NAGs are trying to do here, the NAGs are saying, "Hey, will you guys get off this NSA stuff? We're talking about a Supreme Court seat here, and if we lose this we're in deep doo-doo. We're going to lose control of the court to botch this country." Because the left doesn't like the Constitution of this country. The whole point -- that the left wants judges on courts -- is to change the Constitution because they don't like it because it doesn't fit with the way they want to live. They don't like these kinds of limits. They don't like these kinds of laws and so forth, because they want to be able to live outside them, and so the Constitution has to be changed. It's an old document, written by a bunch of old men. It's not relevant anymore. It's gotta breathe. It's gotta bend and be flexible and so forth. And what they're afraid of is people that strictly interpret the Constitution, and that's why they're afraid of all conservatives, and they're afraid of Judge Alito. But I'll tell you if this guy had done half, if he had done one thing, just one thing of all these allegations, his career would be dirt. He wouldn't have gotten confirmed by anybody. This would have come up long ago in his previous confirmation hearings for federal judgeships that he at present holds.

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You know what I say, folks, I say keep these freaks out there. Keep these left-wing socialist freaks out there, the feminazis, the 1960s feminazis, more Chuck Schumer, more Dick Durbin, keep them out there front and center making the case and telling us who these people are. Martin Luther King? They have to bring up Martin Luther King in this Alito battle? Was Martin Luther King for abortion on demand? I don't recall Martin Luther King taking a position that way. I don't think Martin Luther King was for abortion on demand. But apparently he was, at least according to these people, because he's being thrown in with all these other rights they're talking about. Was Martin Luther King for partial-birth abortion? Is the record clear on that? So we need Martin Luther King, people understand, he was for abortion, the conservatives are all Archie Bunker, and these dolts pretend to be smarter than we are, so brilliant. We, of course, are the Neanderthals.

What it boils down to is this. If you oppose socialism, if you support a colorblind society, if you want to leave issues like abortion and marriage to the states and the people, you shouldn't be confirmed, you shouldn't even be listened to, you shouldn't even be taken seriously, because these are the elites and they're smarter than all the rest of us. Folks, you can always tie this back to the foundational belief for these people. The foundational belief is that capitalism, the system under which we've organized our affairs, is unfair. It is inherently unfair, therefore America is inherently unfair. Capitalism chooses winners and losers, and of course the winners get to pick other winners, and then they leave the losers out, and the losers have no choice. I didn't see it, but I will bet you, I am so confident of this, having not even seen it, I will bet you that there was a journalist somewhere yesterday and last night talking about this West Virginia story, lamenting the poor, poor circumstances of miners in West Virginia. This country is so horrible. This country is so derelict, this country is so discriminating, this country is so whatever, that these poor people have no other thing to do. They have no other opportunity. They have no chance. They are life's losers as picked by the flawed system of capitalism, and they have no choice but than to risk their lives going down into these mines where, if the explosions or cave-ins don't kill them, the pollution will, and nobody cares. It's all about energy for the rich corporations and the rich people. It's all about exploiting these poor, dumb people, and somebody's going to be out there speaking for them, and in the process you impugn the miners, you impugn their families, you impugn a tradition of work that is well paid, and you impugn a country. And that's the message.

It's the same template when talking about soldiers. "They don't want to do that, they're only over there because they have no other choice. They come from poor areas, hayseed areas of the country, have no chance to get an education, no chance to get a job, Bush won't even raise the minimum wage, what choice do they have, they have to join the Army to go get killed." They impugn them, impugn the military, impugn the country. It's all about impugning capitalism. These people are socialists. They call themselves liberals, but they're socialists, and they want a great socialist order with themselves ruling the roost. Of course, different rules for themselves than the rules they will write and set for everybody else. Then you have the egalitarians. These are the people that it doesn't matter if 95% of the country believe in something, if 5% don't, then the 5% need to dominate. Why, what about the people who don't agree with us? Well, if those people don't agree with it then it's called a democracy. It's called win elections and get the power and do it your way. It's also called adaptation. But, "Oh, no, we are ignoring these people, we're making them feel left out, we're leaving them behind. This system sucks. This is not fair." Yet go anywhere around the world you want and find where their system has ever worked. Find where their system of socialism has produced prosperity like this nation has, you can't find it. You can't find a system of socialism around the world which has produced anything like the freedom we have here. And yet for some reason that's founded in ignorance, coupled with elitism and arrogance, they insist that their way is better, even though it's an utter failure. It gets people killed. It makes slaves of people. It enslaves them, and oftentimes you build walls around the country to keep them in. And yet they still laud that system and they still pretend that that's what their objectives are.

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(AP: Alito Gets High Marks From Bar Association)
(NRO: Peter Kirsanow: Judge Alito is precise)

[Steve M.]

Alito's dissents in affirmative action cases that upheld the AA laws were chided by his colleagues for being so carefully parsed that if his dissent were a ruling and you enforced it, there's be no affirmaaitve action at all and rthe old-boy network would be back in place. Sam Alito doesn't care about black people!

But then he does live in my hometown, which doesn't have any black people! (That's not my fault!)

[Bobby F.]

Originally Posted by Steve M.

Alito's dissents in affirmative action cases that upheld the AA laws were chided by his colleagues for being so carefully parsed that if his dissent were a ruling and you enforced it, there's be no affirmaaitve action at all and rthe old-boy network would be back in place. Sam Alito doesn't care about black people!

But then he does live in my hometown, which doesn't have any black people! (That's not my fault!)

There shouldn't be any affirmative action. It's reverse discrimination. Get accepted to a college because you can. Not because you're black or some other minority.