Every time the puerile petulance of the left seems to have hit its zenith, it amazes by spiraling even further out of control. What began as a public tantrum among genital-hatted fools and a pouting defiance in the lockstep-left media has now infected the highest levels of our government. The Kavanaugh spectacle and the increasing acceptance of previously unthinkable tactics on display in that debacle now present a clear and present danger to the Republic.
The unthinkable is now the new normal for the unhinged left, and we dismiss it at our peril.
Yesterday, we were treated to the nauseating spectacle of a mob of petulant, shrieking, entitled, vapid, arrested-development cases literally throwing themselves at the doors of the Supreme Court, scratching and clawing and howling like banshees. Never denied anything in their puerile, entitled lives, the loss of the 2016 election and every national event that followed has thrown them into a permanent state of hysterical tantrum.
And make no mistake: their leaders are cynically encouraging every shriek and stamp and clawing flail.
The rest of us tend to ignore the spectacle, dismissing it as beneath our notice, like the antics of a spoiled toddler in a grocery candy aisle being mishandled by a clueless mother. But this is not child-rearing. And ignoring this is not in our national interest. In fact, it is dangerous.
Like that toddler in a grocery store testing the limits of maternal patience, #resist Progressives take every incidence of mature restraint as implicit permission to ratchet up their tantrum to the next level of absurdity. At some point, most parents reach the end of their patience and swat the little monster on the rear, thus ending the frothing paroxysm and sparing the rest of society from having to tolerate the screeching abuse of the entitled little cretin in their midst. But don’t expect the Democrat leaders to do so.
The Democrat party believes this unending hysteria encourages their base, and they could not care less for the damage it does to the republic in the meantime. In fact, they encourage that damage at every turn, and --- unlike the Millennial embarrassments squealing and wailing in the Capitol building halls --- those leaders have real power. They can do real damage.
We have just seen a frightening and nearly successful attempt by Senate Democrats to reverse six hundred years of jurisprudence requiring a presumption of innocence: an effort that shook the foundations of the Constitutional system. We watched the terminally nasty Senator Gillibrand insisting Brett Kavanaugh be pilloried, even if innocent, in sacrificial reparation for some free-floating white patriarchal guilt, denigrating the Constitutional necessity for an actual process before thus destroying him as “that f---ing hearing”. We heard Senator Hirono flatly stating that the presumption of innocence only applies to those who first prove their Progressive beliefs. We followed the Senator Schumer interview, where he baldly stated that “there is no presumption of guilt or innocence”.
These aren’t stupid people. They are amoral, unethical, cynical, and frankly nauseating. But they are intelligent enough to understand that the presumption of innocence is a Constitutional bedrock; that evidence is a necessity before consquence; that corroboration of disputed testimony is mandated. They didn’t care. They needed the end of Kavanaugh, and that end justified any means. Period.
By doing so, they demonstrated an abysmal legal ignorance, Constitutional illiteracy, and a vicious bias as they spoke and then voted in abrogation of every principle that they once perjured themselves by swearing to uphold. Again: they don’t care.
They cloaked their perfidy in an ugly semblance of propriety. Then they left the violence to the useful idiots they incited to mayhem and riot.
What is more shocking is that this is just the beginning of a cynical, all-out assault on the very Constitution that stands in the way of their insatiable desire for power at all costs. As Senator Lindsey Graham --- once the most mild of men and most enamored of Senatorial comity with his “friends across the aisle” --- recently said, clearly appalled by the devolution of Senatorial advice and consent into a cynical travesty of process: “My God, you want power. And I hope you never get it”.
Truer words were never spoken. But unfortunately, Senator Graham hasn’t seen anything yet.
Because the next step in the effort of the Progressive left to batter the Constitutional system of law is coming rapidly down the pike. Unbelievable as it would have seemed only a few years ago, they are now seriously announcing their intent to “pack the Supreme Court”.
An idea that was once seen as absurd, and one not attempted since FDR tried and failed in the last great socialist expansion, the proposal to “pack the Court” is receiving widespread support from the embittered left. Following the Kavanaugh appointment, Progressive outlets like Vox muse that this “drastic action” may be a “reasonable defensive measure” to protect economic legislation aimed at socialist redistribution of income. Even the Washington Post now posits that “this drastic and little-used step could be construed as viable and even necessary”.
Drastic or not, this is not by any means an empty threat. The number of Supreme Court Justices is not Constitutionally mandated. It is established by the Congress and can be changed by an ordinary Congressional act.
And control of that Congress teeters on a knife edge.
Packing the Court is accomplished by adding new Justices to the Supreme Court. Instead of 9 Justices, the initial packing of the Court would be to simply expand the number of Justices to at least 11 seats, then “packing” six of them with Progressives. If 6 conservatives manage to get on the Court, the number is increased to 13 so 7 can be packed by the left. And so on, and so on, and so on, until they secure absolute control.
By doing so, their failure to control the presidency or even Congress over the next decades, once guaranteed to them due to their “permanent demographic majority” (a theory bitterly debunked in 2016) would become irrelevant. Socialists on the Court would rubber stamp every usurpation of individual liberty and the private sector proposed by a Progressive Congress, rejecting every counter-measure by conservatives or libertarians. Ironically, judicial power to interpret the Constitution would be means by which the Constitutional limitations on government power would be abrogated. It would no longer matter if we elected conservative or libertarian representatives or presidents: the Supreme Court would effectively mandate the socialist revolution in America.
Already there is a possibility that control of the Congress will move to the Democrats in 2018.
If a Democrat majority is in a position to override a presidential veto at that time; if Democrats win the presidency in 2020; or if ever in the future they control both of the branches of government: they can --- and now say increasingly that they will --- pack the Court.
In the past, packing the Court was rejected as repulsive to the concept to a representative government and the Constitutional underlayment of the republic, a sleight of political hand of technical compliance but abhorrent effect. But what controlled behavior in the past has now been rejected categorically by the left.
Sitting United States Senators have now publicly abrogated the very bedrock of our Constitutional and legal principles. Their compatriots in the House are encouraging violence, mayhem, thuggish intimidation, and riot. Their supporters are clogging the halls of the Capitol building, monotonously repeating the droning chants fed to them by their handlers, mind-numbed robots in a quasi-religious cult of the terminally offended. The rest of them are throwing themselves like enraged lemmings at the doors to the Supreme Court.
Undermining the system has become the means to an end. And they are all in.
If you think that they will balk at the next step of packing the Court, simply because it will further undermine that system, you are not watching. You are not understanding.
All of this is insane. Two years ago all of this would have been unthinkable.
In what world can we then afford to dismiss the next level of insanity as unthinkable as well? We dismiss the threat of packing the Supreme Court as absurd. But we do so at our peril.
The unthinkable is now the new normal for the unhinged left, and we dismiss it at our peril.
Yesterday, we were treated to the nauseating spectacle of a mob of petulant, shrieking, entitled, vapid, arrested-development cases literally throwing themselves at the doors of the Supreme Court, scratching and clawing and howling like banshees. Never denied anything in their puerile, entitled lives, the loss of the 2016 election and every national event that followed has thrown them into a permanent state of hysterical tantrum.
And make no mistake: their leaders are cynically encouraging every shriek and stamp and clawing flail.
The rest of us tend to ignore the spectacle, dismissing it as beneath our notice, like the antics of a spoiled toddler in a grocery candy aisle being mishandled by a clueless mother. But this is not child-rearing. And ignoring this is not in our national interest. In fact, it is dangerous.
Like that toddler in a grocery store testing the limits of maternal patience, #resist Progressives take every incidence of mature restraint as implicit permission to ratchet up their tantrum to the next level of absurdity. At some point, most parents reach the end of their patience and swat the little monster on the rear, thus ending the frothing paroxysm and sparing the rest of society from having to tolerate the screeching abuse of the entitled little cretin in their midst. But don’t expect the Democrat leaders to do so.
The Democrat party believes this unending hysteria encourages their base, and they could not care less for the damage it does to the republic in the meantime. In fact, they encourage that damage at every turn, and --- unlike the Millennial embarrassments squealing and wailing in the Capitol building halls --- those leaders have real power. They can do real damage.
We have just seen a frightening and nearly successful attempt by Senate Democrats to reverse six hundred years of jurisprudence requiring a presumption of innocence: an effort that shook the foundations of the Constitutional system. We watched the terminally nasty Senator Gillibrand insisting Brett Kavanaugh be pilloried, even if innocent, in sacrificial reparation for some free-floating white patriarchal guilt, denigrating the Constitutional necessity for an actual process before thus destroying him as “that f---ing hearing”. We heard Senator Hirono flatly stating that the presumption of innocence only applies to those who first prove their Progressive beliefs. We followed the Senator Schumer interview, where he baldly stated that “there is no presumption of guilt or innocence”.
These aren’t stupid people. They are amoral, unethical, cynical, and frankly nauseating. But they are intelligent enough to understand that the presumption of innocence is a Constitutional bedrock; that evidence is a necessity before consquence; that corroboration of disputed testimony is mandated. They didn’t care. They needed the end of Kavanaugh, and that end justified any means. Period.
By doing so, they demonstrated an abysmal legal ignorance, Constitutional illiteracy, and a vicious bias as they spoke and then voted in abrogation of every principle that they once perjured themselves by swearing to uphold. Again: they don’t care.
They cloaked their perfidy in an ugly semblance of propriety. Then they left the violence to the useful idiots they incited to mayhem and riot.
What is more shocking is that this is just the beginning of a cynical, all-out assault on the very Constitution that stands in the way of their insatiable desire for power at all costs. As Senator Lindsey Graham --- once the most mild of men and most enamored of Senatorial comity with his “friends across the aisle” --- recently said, clearly appalled by the devolution of Senatorial advice and consent into a cynical travesty of process: “My God, you want power. And I hope you never get it”.
Truer words were never spoken. But unfortunately, Senator Graham hasn’t seen anything yet.
Because the next step in the effort of the Progressive left to batter the Constitutional system of law is coming rapidly down the pike. Unbelievable as it would have seemed only a few years ago, they are now seriously announcing their intent to “pack the Supreme Court”.
An idea that was once seen as absurd, and one not attempted since FDR tried and failed in the last great socialist expansion, the proposal to “pack the Court” is receiving widespread support from the embittered left. Following the Kavanaugh appointment, Progressive outlets like Vox muse that this “drastic action” may be a “reasonable defensive measure” to protect economic legislation aimed at socialist redistribution of income. Even the Washington Post now posits that “this drastic and little-used step could be construed as viable and even necessary”.
Drastic or not, this is not by any means an empty threat. The number of Supreme Court Justices is not Constitutionally mandated. It is established by the Congress and can be changed by an ordinary Congressional act.
And control of that Congress teeters on a knife edge.
Packing the Court is accomplished by adding new Justices to the Supreme Court. Instead of 9 Justices, the initial packing of the Court would be to simply expand the number of Justices to at least 11 seats, then “packing” six of them with Progressives. If 6 conservatives manage to get on the Court, the number is increased to 13 so 7 can be packed by the left. And so on, and so on, and so on, until they secure absolute control.
By doing so, their failure to control the presidency or even Congress over the next decades, once guaranteed to them due to their “permanent demographic majority” (a theory bitterly debunked in 2016) would become irrelevant. Socialists on the Court would rubber stamp every usurpation of individual liberty and the private sector proposed by a Progressive Congress, rejecting every counter-measure by conservatives or libertarians. Ironically, judicial power to interpret the Constitution would be means by which the Constitutional limitations on government power would be abrogated. It would no longer matter if we elected conservative or libertarian representatives or presidents: the Supreme Court would effectively mandate the socialist revolution in America.
Already there is a possibility that control of the Congress will move to the Democrats in 2018.
If a Democrat majority is in a position to override a presidential veto at that time; if Democrats win the presidency in 2020; or if ever in the future they control both of the branches of government: they can --- and now say increasingly that they will --- pack the Court.
In the past, packing the Court was rejected as repulsive to the concept to a representative government and the Constitutional underlayment of the republic, a sleight of political hand of technical compliance but abhorrent effect. But what controlled behavior in the past has now been rejected categorically by the left.
Sitting United States Senators have now publicly abrogated the very bedrock of our Constitutional and legal principles. Their compatriots in the House are encouraging violence, mayhem, thuggish intimidation, and riot. Their supporters are clogging the halls of the Capitol building, monotonously repeating the droning chants fed to them by their handlers, mind-numbed robots in a quasi-religious cult of the terminally offended. The rest of them are throwing themselves like enraged lemmings at the doors to the Supreme Court.
Undermining the system has become the means to an end. And they are all in.
If you think that they will balk at the next step of packing the Court, simply because it will further undermine that system, you are not watching. You are not understanding.
All of this is insane. Two years ago all of this would have been unthinkable.
In what world can we then afford to dismiss the next level of insanity as unthinkable as well? We dismiss the threat of packing the Supreme Court as absurd. But we do so at our peril.