The Right Voice

Well, OK, summer ended a while ago (although not officially until whenever the Autumn Equinox was, but for all intents and purposes, it ended after Labor Day), but I am just now getting around to updating my blog. I wanted to write about this because I noticed a sharp change in Washington.

I got to Washington in Mid-June when summer was just getting started. However, not being in school, I hardly cared that it was summer. The only thing it meant for me was it would be extremely hot and humid (I don’t ever recall a summer when I was more uncomfortable). I still had to get up early and go to work everyday. Boy, was I mistaken.

Washington takes the sumer off too (not me, I still had to work). I did not think much of the streets that were not completely buzzing because there was still plenty of foot and vehicle traffic. I did not think about the Metro trains that were not full to capacity, partly because we get shoved in like sardines in the morning on the Yellow train on the way to Fort Totten. I did not think much of it because it was all I knew.

July quickly became August and Washington fell asleep. Congress went on recess (except for the Republicans) and it was largely uneventful (with the exception of Sarah Palin). In fact, there was one Friday where we left work at 330 because there was absolutely no point in staying any longer. It was a ghost town (As close as a bustling metropolis can be anyway).

As the air became less thick and muggy, I knew September was upon us. Seriously, we have had good weather for a few weeks now. The weather was not the only difference. DC became alive with action. More so than in June or July. There was a significant increase in foot traffic and the Metro was much more crowded. Things are moving, people are talking. This city has awakened and summer is over.

Todd

John McCain appeared on “The View” recently and talked about Supreme Court appointees. Of course, the question of Roe v. Wade was asked. However, those of us who have read the Constitution and understand how the Court works know that there is no point at all for this “concern” to be brought up. The Constitution states that The Supreme Court only has appellate jurisdiction. That means they can only hear arguments for a case after it has gone through the state, and district courts. Also, a case has to be brought up in the first place. Historically the Court’s favorite thing to do is to take a back seat. The cases have already been decided. They adhere to Stare Decisis - Let the decision stand.

They will rarely overturn a case (except in cases that were decided by incompetance like Plessy vs. Ferguson and The Dred Scott Case). The last time a case was brought before the Court dealing with overturning Roe v. Wade was 1991, and it was not overturned despite have on conservative majority in the Court and a President against abortion. It’s a moot point, but why let that get in the way of a juicy hook? The idea that John McCain as a strict interpreter of the Constitution also came up. He believes (as well as I do) that we should interpret the Constitution the way our founders interpreted it. So he believes the case should not be up to the court (and it shouldn’t). As Justice Scalia, saying as only Justice Scalia can say said this:

The point at which life becomes ‘worthless’, and the point at which the means neccesary become ‘extraordinary’, or ‘inappropriate’ are neither set forth in the Constitutio nor known to the nine Justices of this Court any better than they are known to nine people picked at random from he Kansas City phone directory

To think that the black robe of the Supreme Court gives them clairvoyance to know anything of right and wrong, moral or immoral is foolish. To give them powers that are not granted to them in the Constitution is even more foolish.

After McCain spoke Whoopi Goldberg interrupted. She asked if she had to worry about becoming a slave because McCain said we should follow the Framers. Well, she must not know our position so I’ll tell her. We don’t agree with the notion that the principles of the Constitution change, and we don’t like Justices changing it based on their own personal preferences at the time of their ruling. We think that the only way to declare something “unconstitutional” is to change the Constitution through the amendment process. It appears that Whoopi Goldberg has never read the 13th Ammendment either, so I will help her with that too.

Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime where of the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Section 2. Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Seems pretty cut and dry. I bet there is a Justice who believes in a living document that will one day read into that amendment that it was not talking about slavery and will re-institute it. Quick, let’s start a panic over nothing.
Todd

Well, not really, no, I am not. But, I was featured on the blog of Rep. Eric Cantor’s personal blog because he spoke at The Conservative Blogger’s Briefing at work today.

I’m in the purple tie. 5th from the left. Seated next to me is John Fund from the Wall Street Journal. He was there to tell us about his book Stealing Elections which talks about how voter fraud is stealing elections and how ACORN is only fueling the fire of voter fraud. He also states that Florida in 2000 was just a sample of how bad the election can be this year if steps are not taken. 14,000 lawyers have been deployed to contest any close election result. H likened it to having a lot of underbrush in a forest with 14,000 people that had matches. Not good.