Despite Teddy Kennedy’s fulminations and character assassination, Judge Brown was confirmed yesterday by a vote of 56 to 43. (Senator Nelson of Nebraska was the only Dem to break ranks.)
Much of the attack on her was that her views are “out of the mainstream.” Well, yes, they are! Wonderfully so. How many judges in the US would write:
“We no longer find slavery abhorrent. We embrace it. We demand more. Big government is not just the opiate of the masses. It is the opiate. The drug of choice for multinational corporations and single moms; for regulated industries and rugged Midwestern farmers and militant senior citizens.”
Or this:
“Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.”
And how about this shocker?
“The public school system is already beleaguered by bureaucracy; so cowed by the demands of due process; so overwhelmed with faddish curricula that its educational purpose is almost an afterthought.”
The likes of Kennedy, Schumer, Boxer, et al can rage that Judge Brown is “out of the mainstream,” but her thinking is accurate and perceptive. Remember that at one time, “mainstream” thinking was that slavery was part of the natural order and heavier-than-air flight was impossible.
