The below is from Mathew Staver who is the Founder and Chairman of "Liberty Counsel". As he has been doing, Obama wants to appoint someone to a high position who has just as much experience has he has at being the head of a government.
What's also worrisome about Kagan is the fact that she wrote a senior thesis in college concerning her worry about the shrinking of socialism. I just hope the Republicans in Congress get their act together and filibuster her like Democrats did to Samuel Alito.
Oh... did anyone else notice how proud the Democrats where that they nominated Sonia Sotomayor? Like they were the FIRST to do so for a Hispanic. HUGH eye roll there!
Democrats LOVE to say that Republicans are the party of "no", but I've got a message for you Democrats. You are the party of ONE WAY!!!! You're more than happy to point out others errors and issues, but you ignore your own even when you're just as bad if not worse!
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Just hours ago, President Obama nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan as his candidate to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens.
Kagan is Barack Obama's long-time collaborator and political supporter (also a significant Obama campaign contributor) who has never served as a judge at any level, and has virtually no experience as a lawyer in real life.
In fact, Kagan has even less experience at being a judge than the President did at being an executive before he was elected. The extensive experience they share is in transnational law (looking to foreign law to shape American law). Ms. Kagan and the President both taught at the University of Chicago Law School for a period of time in the early 1990's and were both active in Chicago's legal and political environment.
Unfortunately, Elena Kagan, like the President, has an unsettling attitude toward religious organizations and their influence on society. Writing in a memo concerning counseling teenagers during unwanted pregnancies, she said:
When government funding is to be used for projects so close to the central concerns of religion, all religious organizations should be off limits.
She later recanted this insensitive and impractical statement by admitting it was "the dumbest thing I ever heard," but there is little doubt that Kagan holds to the old, discredited fable that there must be a "separation between church and state."
Elena Kagan is perhaps best known for banning the military from recruiting on the Harvard Law School campus because of her opposition to the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.
The Associated Press characterized her nomination this way: "At 50 years old, Kagan would be the youngest justice on the court, which would give her the opportunity to extend Obama's legacy for a generation."
Frankly, Barack Obama's socialist "legacy" should not be extended by so much as a week, let alone a generation. But as she proved while getting support for a radical restructuring of Harvard's law curriculum, Kagan IS a consensus builder and that's why she is such a dangerous choice for a life-time appointment to the nation's High Court.
If you sometimes feel like the America we love is unraveling at the seams, you are correct. Our Constitution is under vicious attack and is being marginalized. If liberal legal thinkers like Elena Kagan and Barack Obama have their way, it will "evolve" to the point of being completely unrecognizable.
A socialistic mandate is being enacted throughout our government. Political correctness has replaced the cherished values of our founding. We are being pushed toward becoming a European-style democracy with an all-powerful central government.
Right now, the Obama Administration and 111th Congress are obsessed with ramming through unpopular, controversial bills like the Financial Reform Act, Cap and Trade, Immigration Reform, an FCC takeover of the Internet, plus enacting repeals of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and the "Defense of Marriage Act."
Pushing the "Employment Non-Discrimination Act" (ENDA) and getting extremist judges approved at all levels of the judiciary are also high on the Administration's pre-November wish list.
Meanwhile, there are disasters unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico, Tennessee and Kentucky - all on the heels of an onslaught of tornadoes in Arkansas and flooding in the northeast. Americans are facing unbelievable catastrophes in our own back yard plus a disastrous ten percent unemployment rate...and yet, where is the government's focus? On passing their socialist "reform" agenda!
The plain fact is that our government's priorities are grossly misplaced. Wall Street Journal columnist Fred Barnes hit the nail squarely on the head with this recent comment:
"The White House wants to pass as much legislation as possible before losing its big majorities [in Congress], no matter how unpopular its proposals are."
