And liberals explode. There are entirely too many hottest of hot takes to even link. Here’s a fun one
Uh huh. How about
Brett Kavanaugh and the Supreme Court’s drastic shift to the right, cartoonsplained
There was zero problem from the media when Obama’s picks pushed it way to the Left. And Excitable Bob Casey
Casey: Trump Supreme Court Pick Represents a Corrupt Bargain and I Will Oppose It
Might want to actually interview him, as is your duty, Bob. And Democracy For America (snicker)
Then Loopy Ezra Klein
The Women’s March got a bit ahead of themselves in their press release
https://twitter.com/AlexPappas/status/1016499063657844736
Twitchy has, of course, lots of Liberals losing their minds (the norm). You have Terry McCauliffe warning of a high body count, Cory Booker having a meltdown, and a whole gaggle of Democrats bloviating. Obviously, the NY Times is in a snit, saying we don’t know enough about Kavanaugh (funny, we knew almost nothing about Obama and they were good with that). The Washington Post is against him, as well. We expected that. And there are plenty of anti-Kavanaugh op-eds there, well, let’s face it, it’s all based on anti-Trump sentiment. The LA Times is suddenly wondering if the Supreme Court nomination process can be repaired. Paul Begala offers CNN’s opinion in stating that Red-state Democrat Senators should oppose Kavanaugh in total. Why? Like the rest, just because. They can couch their opposition in whatever terms they like, but, it’s all based on TDS and Republican Derangement Syndrome. If it was super squishy Jeb Bush in office, they’d do the same thing.
If they do not like it, then, per the paraphrase of Obama “Elections matter. I won; you lost. Deal with it.”
But, who really is Brett Kavanaugh? In reality, he has few vulnerabilities, and was actually the safe pick
Even though Democrats will go to any lengths to stop Kavanaugh, he presents them with few vulnerabilities.
He has written no opinions on their holy-of-holies, abortion or gay marriage. To the extent that he has written on these topics, he has observed that the government might have a compelling interest in providing contraceptives and that an alien might have a due process right to an abortion.
He has written no major opinions on free speech or religion, nor has he displayed any sympathies for the criminal defense bar.
Instead, Kavanaugh’s creates a deeper challenge to liberalism: rolling back the administrative state.
Progressives have evaded the Constitution’s checks and balances on the federal government by unceasingly expanding its regulatory reach, transferring the actual authority to make the rules from Congress to unelected bureaucrats, and then demanding that judges defer to the results virtually without question.
It is through this judicial-agency industrial complex where, as the Obama administration displayed on everything from immigration to education to health care, progressives have imposed their views on the American people and the states with little democratic accountability.
Kavanaugh has repeatedly challenged the foundations of this runaway state. He has written significant opinions overturning two misbegotten examples of this dynamic.
In the first, he found the Consumer Finance Protection Board (CFPB) violated the Constitution because it vested all power over consumer finance in the country in one person, but insulated him from removal by the president.
In the second, he struck down a new federal accounting board, because it too was insulated from presidential control, even though Article II of the Constitution vests the president, and the president alone, with the duty to see that “the Laws be Faithfully Executed.â€
Let’s see Democrats argue that limiting power of the federal bureaucracy is a bad thing, as is returning power to the Legislative Branch.
But, what’s going to happen is Democrats and their minions will assail Judge Kavanaugh over what they see as a Constitutional Right to kill the unborn willy-nilly, along with a few other Left-wing commandments. It won’t be pretty, and they might not get the support they think they will from the average America
