The Supreme Court’s Session begins on the first Monday in
October. Thus, we should be writing about the new Supreme Court term.
However, Governor Schwarzenegger’s autobiography, Total Recall,
came out today. Thus, we should be discussing the Governator.
The Supreme Court or Schwarzenegger? That is the question.
The Future of America
The Supreme Court
Sex, titillation, lascivious conduct
The Governor
Why not Sex and the Supremes?
That’s an oxymoron.
Diana Ross and the Supremes sounds good. Arnold
Schwarzenegger and the Supremes is abhorrent.
Let’s do both separately.
It’s easy to start with the Governor. Tell me when his 646
page book is in the Dollar Closeout Bin, and I might buy it. I also did not
watch the 60 Minute Interview. No reason exists to feed his ego.
Total Recall is the inappropriate title of his book. Total
recall is what the voters of California did to his incompetent predecessor Gray
Davis. Total recall is what the voters of California should have done to
Governor Schwarzenegger when he abandoned his principles and accelerated
California’s ride into bankruptcy.
The media cares he screwed Maria Shriver, Brigitte Nielsen,
Mildred Baena, and a host of others. He lived by Hollywood mores.
That’s nothing compared to screwing the 38 million people of
California, and sullying what was left of the Republican image in California.
Chapter One of his book should be entitled “The Art of
Leadership”
The first word in the chapter should be “Cojones.” Golda Meir had them; Arnold doesn’t. Margaret
Thatcher has them; Arnold doesn’t. Deloris Huerta has cojones. Arnold doesn’t.
Angela Merkel has them. Not the Governor who kept checking which way the wind
was blowing.
Perhaps all the steroids he ingested affected him.
Total recall? Selective Recall is more the case. Apparently
nothing about his history of sexual harassment; nor a more inclusive discussion
of his affairs. Perhaps they were all an affair to forget. His being an “expert
in living in denial” provides the proper title for his book, “Living in
Denial.”
Does he talk about Senate Majority Leader John Burton
approaching him on the ballot measure to bond the state deficit as a one-time
solution to the state’s deficit, presumably to resolve the problem once and
forever. The issue was not the bond, but the companion measure for a hard cap
on state spending, which the state voters would have passed at the point.
Senator Burton is reputed to have warned the Governor that
the teacher’s unions would have defeated him for reelection. The non-Governator
then substituted a leaky rainy day fund for the hard cap.
Does he recall how he caved after the nurses’ union picketed
him?
Does he recall why he hired a Democratic apparatchik as his
Chief of Staff?
Does he explain how he became a tax and spend liberal?
Does he explain how he would fly a private jet from LA to Sacramento round trip every day he met in Sacramento while pushing a carbon control bill through the Legislature?
The failed governor is apparently on a self-promotion tour
to rehabilitate his image. He also founded the Schwarzenegger Institute for
State and Global policy at the University of Southern California.
His ego won't let him fade quietly into the night.
And now to the Supreme Court. This is another critical year
for the Court with the major cases pending before it. That’s the case every
year.
Affirmative action -
yet again. Voting rights – yet again. Alien Torts Claims Act – yet again. The
unlawful usurpation of power by the Obama EPA- yet again. Gay marriage – that’s
new.
The difference this year is not the caseload, but the status
of Chief Justice Roberts. Now that he has tasted the dark side by affirming
ObamaCare, will he be seduced by it?
The fellow Justices are all politically savvy. The four
stalwart conservatives have said their opinions of the Chief have not changed.
They may say that publicly, but they will not forget.
The Justices have great respect for each other. They
understand that each votes his or her own conscience pursuant to a core set of
values. They may disagree judicially, but the respect is there.
Not this time. The Chief Justice, for reasons known only to
him, ignored his oath to uphold the Constitution, while apparently caving to
political pressure “to uphold the Court’s image.” If so, he failed. The Court’s
unfavorable image has now hit a 25 year high while the favorability image
continues to drop. He has turned the Court’s image into that of just another
political agency. The Court should be above politics.
The Chief Justice, the otherwise brilliant Harvard grad,
seems to have forgotten that our federal government is one of enumerated
powers. His decision essentially points the way to a monolithic national government.
Which Chief Justice will judge this year? Is the answer
blowing in the wind?
The Governator and the Chief: Not Two Profiles in Courage
The Governator and the Chief: Not Two Profiles in Courage
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