Socialism, not republicanism, is the real extremism - (Janice Rogers Brown's views)

PITTSBURGH LIVE.COM ^ | JUNE 12, 2005 | COLIN McNICKLE

[CHARLITE]

To get a starkly disturbing idea of how deeply American liberals have failed in understanding, honoring and executing the Founders' republican mission, all one has to do is, amazingly, look at the front page of last Thursday's New York Times.

David D. Kirkpatrick offers a stellar profile of Janice Rogers Brown, a black "daughter of Alabama sharecroppers" finally confirmed the day before by the Senate to sit on the D.C. federal appeals bench.

Given the liberal bent of The Times, it would be easy to read the headline -- "Seeing slavery in liberalism" -- in the mocking tone that one normally associates with a leftist broadsheet's profile of a prominent conservative.

But a funny thing happened on the way to what normally would have been a hatchet job: The Times' showed Judge Rogers Brown's sight to be 20/20 while showing liberals to be suffering from macular degeneration.

Mr. Kirkpatrick quotes selectively, but quite nicely, from some of Rogers Brown's public comments. Among the best:

"In the heyday of liberal democracy, all roads lead to slavery."

[Sirc_Valence]

LIBERALISM IS A MENTAL DISORDER PING

[Sirc_Valence]

I agree with McNickle, Justice Brown would be great at the Supreme Court.

[vpintheak]

What a spot on article. I had to send my aproval to the author.

[Malesherbes]

Agreed. It would be wonderful if Janice Rogers Brown would join Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court, two African-Americans who have a deep and clear understanding of the meaning of liberty - also two who have themselves been victims of the most vicious attacks by so-called liberals.

[BenLurkin]

"How instructive. How sad. How frightening. Some of the fundamental building blocks of our constitutional republic are considered "extreme" by Democrats and their liberal moneybags."

About time somebody called them on this.

[fso301]

good post ping

[lainde]

She's gooooood! Thanks for the post!

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

When did government cease to be a necessary evil and become a goody bag to solve our private problems?

Sounds like my kind of a judge.

[brityank]

Perhaps by then good republicans will have reclaimed the word and expose the real extremists.
Perhaps.

Don't hold your breath, Colin. In the final analysis, they are as socialist as the democrats.

[zip]

ping

[inquest]

My favorite thing is when liberals accuse judges of being "extremist" and "oustide the mainstream" by refusing to strike down state laws enacted by popular majorities. How can it be "extremist" to go along with the will of the voters?