Supreme Court

During the impeachment trial of Bill Clinton in 1998, Congresswoman Maxine Waters defended her president by complaining that our troops were in harm's way and it would be demoralizing to them to have their Commander-in-Chief convicted and removed from office. As with most Democrats, she was typically out of touch with the military. Clinton had been a draft dodger who cavorted with communists in Czechoslovakia during the Vietnam War. His removal would have been a huge morale booster to the military. Unfortunately as I watched the House vote, not one Republican in their 90 second speeches before the vote made any kind of comment concerning morale, and I wondered then if the Republicans were also losing touch, not only with the military, but with the entire population. I think the second term of W at least proved that they were.

Now we have the most liberal president in our history, an obvious socialist in spite of his scoffing at the suggestion during his campaign for president, who has accumulated more debt in one year than Bush did in one term, and more than any other presidential administration, who is usurping powers through the appointment of "czars" which have no constitutional recognition, much less authority, and is trying to ram his agenda down America's throat by by-passing Congress when he can't get something passed legitimately. He is considering making Cap and Trade, for example, an Environmental Protection Agency policy, thus giving the EPA the power to enforce it without it ever being voted on in Congress. We have never had a president more out of touch with America than the one we have now. Obama is a hopeful dictator trying to overthrow the government by decree, and what he can't get done through Congress and czars, he'll try to get done through Supreme Court appointments.

This week he nominated Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. Kagan is a Harvard law professor with no judicial experience. She is pro-homosexual rights, opposed to the Defense of Marriage Act, hostile toward faith-based organizations, anti-military, having been responsible for the removal of the ROTC from Harvard's campus and is opposed to the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, and she believes the Constitution is defective. She believes free speech can be controlled by the government and is in favor of the so-called Fairness Doctrine. She agrees with Obama that the Constitution is a "living" document, or in other words it changes and adapts to "public policy," which is whatever the president or the justices decide is right according to their own philosophies, not according to the Constitution.

With her anti-military background Kagan's appointment would be an insult to our fighting men in harm's way. So where is Maxine Waters pontificating about the morale of our troops now? Kagan is a dangerous appointment because she stands against everything that our country was founded on.

John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, said about our leaders, "Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty - as well as the privilege and interest - of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians as their rulers." Kagan, with her anti-Christian position on nearly every issue, not to mention her anti-constitutional positions, is less qualified to be a Supreme Court justice than was Harriet Miers, and should be denied.