Oh, for a Justice Mary Poppins
What a fabulous time to be alive! With Justice Souter’s retirement and our delightful new President Obama ready to appoint the replacement, aren’t you just giddy at the possibilities?
We are going to have a new lawgiver! While even inbred hicks get to send their representatives to scribble out some laws, it’s the Supreme Court justices who tell us what those laws really mean. You can almost say they’re even more important than the president (they do tend to stick around longer), which is why the choice must be made carefully.
Now some say the job of the justice is to merely interpret the law based on the Constitution, but luckily, Obama isn’t one of those narrow-minded Neanderthals who want a law-interpreting robot. He’s said he wants someone who understands that:
[J]ustice isn’t about some abstract legal theory or footnote in a case book, it is also about how our laws affect the daily realities of people’s lives, whether they can make a living, and care for their families, whether they feel safe in their homes, and welcome in their own nation. I view that quality of empathy, of understanding and identifying with peoples hopes and struggles as an essential ingredient for arriving at just decisions and outcomes.
See, he wants someone who understands us, cares for us, loves us. Someone who isn’t going to worry if what some old text says is true when he (or, preferably, she) knows what’s best to make us feel good about ourselves!
Know who this made me think of? Mary Poppins — a magical nanny sent to fulfill all the needs of two deserving children. And aren’t we a nation of deserving children looking for someone to take care of us? Now, I remember that in Mary Poppins the two children wrote a letter of the qualifications for the perfect nanny to make her appear, and it’s certainly worth a shot to find the perfect justice. Here’s what I came up with:
THE PERFECT JUSTICE
If you want this choice position
Please be a legal magician
Have empathy, have grace
Be a minority race.
Do not care for original meaning,
Find it legal if its left-leaning
Free the terrorists, legalize pot
Ban guns, Have Cheney shot
Must give gay marriage the nod
And remove all mentions of God
Always protect our right to choose
And make laws based on your views
You could be all our salvation
Force us to be a better nation.
Come and change our laws based on liberal pleas
So we don’t have to wait for democracy.
Hurry, Justice! We implore!
Victory needs just five to four.
It is quite amusing to read and watch the MSM opine and discuss whether the new SCJ must be (in addition to someone willing to ignore the usually plain language of the Constitution) a woman, a lesbian woman, a black, an Hispanic (a former resident of or descendant of a resident of the Island of Hispaniola?), a gay man, a dog-lover, etc. All agree on one thing, at least: no straight, white men need apply. This state of mind is called equal opportunity, I believe.
“Or maybe she will take something from her imagination and make it our reality.”
At the end of the day—this is precisely what occurs! Leftist interpretation of the law is based almost entirely on what feels good. Objective standards are rejected and replaced by pure sentiment. Any half-baked excuse is employed to justify the court room decision. In other words, the judge has perhaps naively become a tyrant.
That song is hilarious. I’m going to have to learn the lyrics!
Do you smell a YouTube hit brewing? Time to dust off the ol’ webcam, Frank.
I keep worrying in the back of my mind that he’ll nominate Michelle. She’s been griping about the First Lady not getting a paycheck, you know
2 David Thompson . . .and this is why you think that . . . pawn
http://www.devilducky.com/media/159307/
5. Michael O’Brein @May 8, 2009 – 5:55 am
Banish thy thought, less it takes root…
/chilling thoughts for a lifetime
Hey, he can have Jennifer Granholm, the Canadian import currently ruining,er running, Michigan!
We would do just about anything to get rid of her. Well, we the living, there are about 30,000 zombies in Detroit that keep voting for her that don’t seem to mind the destruction of our state.
TeleBama wants an empathetic judge? Sort of like the “empathetic” friends he keeps like Rev. “GOD DAMN AMERICA” Wright or Bill Ayers? That sort of empathetic person?
Can’t imagine why TeleBama DOESN’T want someone who will strictly enforce the Constitution. He most likely wouldn’t be in office if that were the case. The depths he will sink to never cease to amaze me.
#6
sheesh:
And whoda thunk that it would be possible for Al Gore to profit from a non-profit. Na….can’t be.
Wait a minute..oh yes he can, and yes he has, and yes he will.
And he is very good at not answering a direct question by well…an indirect answer…
blind pawn
Al Gore is PROFITING from the global warming hoax? Say it isn’t so. LOL! Great point Lynn.
I think I would laugh more if the thought of what is about to happen with the Supreme Court wasn’t so distubing. There goes America just as fast as the chimmey sweeps up the chimmey! Whoshhhh
Mr. Fleming, You just scared the hell out of me with this Mary Poppins bit. Thank you so very much, sir. We should be so lucky as to be frightened like this at least once every two weeks. I am a retired, disabled, Marine Corps, Viet Nam combat vet. One of ten military members in my family. I took an oath over forty years ago to “protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America, so help me God” That oath is no less valid today than it was then. I hope and pray Americans wake up to the dissolution of our great country planned by the Mr. Obama and his administration. We must stop being enthralled by this mans ‘yes we can’ mentality. His ‘yes we can’ has nothing to do with making America the best it can be. HIS ‘yes we can’ means he and his followers ability to destroy America and make it just one more banana republic. We must never allow that to happen. I will not live under sharia law, nor will I live in a land of chaos and anarchy. Thank you.
This is the United States of America. We use U. S. law here. Beyond being founded on the words of The Lord Jesus Christ this nation is founded on the Constitution and our laws were founded on The Bible before Dewey came along. Have a nice day.
Whoever is in charge of this page should be shot for treason.. NOT Cheney.
Unbelievable.. wow… To think that I served my country to defend dopes like this. I have your “Mary Poppins”.. right between my legs you bunch of socialist pigs..
Oooops! Sorry.. you had me fooled.. I guess Hussein and the rest of the socialist swine have me on edge.. need to get off the coffee..
Carry on.. carry on..
Thank GOD you are joking..