And now the fight begins!!! I can't think of an issue for American politics that is more ideologically purist, for both Conservatives, and Idiots...I mean Democrats (sorry, kind of..., or maybe not!), than what we're about to experience for the rest of this year, at least.
The death of Antonin Scalia is about to have ramifications that will effect this country for decades (should the Lord tarry, of course). He was perhaps the most reliably Conservative member of the Supreme Court since his appointment by Ronald Reagan, in 1986. Not only will his influence be sorely missed on the Court, but now the battle begins over his replacement. And I do mean "battle"!!! I remember when Reagan was faced with the prospect of making an appointment to replace a Liberal justice, how all the Democrats screamed about how it behooved him to appoint a Liberal Justice to replace the one who had passed, in order to keep a "sense of balance" on the Court. I wonder if Obama can likewise be counted on to appoint a Conservative Justice to replace Scalia's Conservative view of the Constitution? Fat chance, huh! Scalia was a Strict Constructionist, meaning if the Constitution didn't expressly give the Court authority to decide on an issue, he would vote for "no decision", one way or another.
Unfortunately, our President is a "strict deconstructionist", seeking every means possible to skirt around his Constitutionally limited authority (mostly through trumped-up "Executive Orders"), when he can't get Congress to pass laws that he favors. Can we really expect him to lay aside his perverse values and replace Scalia with another Strict Constructionist, in order to maintain a "sense of balance" on this Court. I think not! He's probably foaming at the mouth thinking about the opportunity to appoint another die-hard Liberal to the Court, to throw the Court into a state of Liberal imbalance for decades!
Fortunately, there are enough truly Conservative Republicans in the Senate to block the confirmation of any of his outrageous appointments, until he leaves office, next year. [UPDATE: Check the post for tomorrow to find my correction of the previous inaccurate statement!!!] Unfortunately, his replacement, I expect, will be another fool (sorry, sort of) that's just as deconstructionist as Obama is. Then you can expect those Conservative Senators to eventually cave-in and confirm whatever buffoon is appointed by the new President, probably the same buffoon that Obama tries to appoint. This will be the Liberals' way of "sticking it to" the Conservative Senators, who will try to block Obama's appointment.
As usual, I try to imagine God's hand in all this. I'm not saying he had something against Scalia. On the contrary, Scalia's likely in a much better place than we are, right now. I suspect God simply took him home so he could see what our collective reaction would be. And I don't think He'll be pleased with what we settle for! I think the consequences will eventually be horrendous, one way or another, and God will use this somehow to discern between those who will trust Him to get us out of the mess the we will create for ourselves, and those who will prefer to wallow in it!
As I said previously, America is about to be weighed in the balance!!! May God have mercy on us all!
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