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Dissembling or Ephiphany? Jim DeMint Wants to Know.

Jimmie | May 21, 2009 | Comments (0)

jim-demint There is a conservative rock star in the Republican Party and his name is Jim DeMint. His op-ed in the Washington Examiner on judicial restraint and the silly word games the President and Senator Leahy are playing deserves much wider attention than it’s gotten thus far.

Obama has said plainly that he intends to choose a justice who will go beyond the law and instead be guided in his decisions by “that quality of empathy, of understanding and identifying with people’s hopes and struggles.” That is, instead of applying the Constitution and Bill of Rights as they are written, an Obama judge would substitute his own personal views, feelings, and experiences in deciding court cases.

Yet, in his very next sentence, the president went on to contradict his previous statement, using Leahy’s tactics, “I will seek somebody who is dedicated to the rule of law, who honors our constitutional traditions, who respects the integrity of the judicial process and the appropriate limits of the judicial role.” Which is it? The rule of law or a justice’s personal views? It cannot be both.

But Americans did not vote for Obama because they agree with him on rewriting our democratic laws and Constitution from the bench. In fact, they disagree — by a margin of more than 3 to 1.

Which is why the President and Leahy are now wrapping their long embrace of liberal judicial activism — of judges substituting their own (liberal) views for what the law says — in the rhetoric of the rule of law and judicial restraint.

There are only two possibilities here: Dissembling or epiphany.

Why the GOP isn’t getting DeMint in front of cameras to ask whether the Democrats have had a “come to Jefferson” moment or if they’re simply being dishonest is completely beyond me.