Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan has noted that famous historical Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall correctly wrote that the Original Constitution expressly denied the “individual freedoms and human rights” of slaves and women, and that it took — as Marshall wrote — “several amendments, a civil war, and momentous social transformation to attain the system of constitutional government.” The Republican National Committee’s official Jar Jar Binks, non-stop comic sensation and actual black person Michael Steele, attacked this radical stance because come on, everybody knows the *real* Constitution didn’t let blacks vote for a reason: Black people are supposed to be slaves, and they count as 3/5ths of a human strictly for the purposes of allocating congressional districts. But now the RNC has “clarified” its position on slavery.
Here’s what some RNC troll wrote on the Republicans’ official website, just to make sure everybody understands the underlying issue:
Elena Kagan’s endorsement of this empathy standard has been rejected by the American people.
Uhh, sure, rejected by the Confederacy and its slaveholders, at the very least. Care to try one more time, RNC troll Doug Heye?
The majority of Americans want a justice who understands that the Founders intended the Court to serve as a neutral arbiter of disputes. The question for Kagan is whether she believes in a ‘modern Constitution’ shaped by activist judges pursuing personal political agendas or whether she believes in basing judicial decisions based on the Constitution and the rule of law. That was the point Chairman Steele raised and that is the issue Kagan must address in this confirmation process.
EXACTLY. Answer now, Elena Kagan: Do you actually stand by the False Constitution as it stands today, with its “empathy” for slaves and votes for “women,” or are you prepared to sack up and support the TRUE Constitution as our Founders intended, before they went back home to their plantations to fuck their slaves? [RNC]
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I officially apologize to Maine, seeing as it’s apparently the sane Republican state.
The Founding Fathers’ God at that time was the Old Testament Deity. After the War Of Northern Aggression the God of the New Testament was enthroned.
Forty acres and a fool.
You cropped out the Republican fundraiser in the background of this etching.
michael steele = clayton bigsby
Wait, what if your Asian? Does this empathy extend to me?
Geez, reThuglicans, just say “we don’t want another New York Jew on SCOTUS” and be done with it, already.
[re=574060]ph7[/re]: Great Del McCoury tune.
Ever since Jon Stewart’s takedown last week of both the Dems and the Repubs bullshit use of “the American people want/need/will/won’t/can’t/should/blah/blah/blah,” I can’t read those words anymore.
And I just might kill the next person who seriously uses the term “the Founders” or a derivation thereof.
Ah yes, I had almost forgotten how the Republicans actually attacked the very concept of empathy during the Sotomayor hearings. Only heartless bastards should be allowed to be judges!
The RNC should make sure to prevent any activist judges from getting on to the court; after all, if the founding fathers had thought that the enumeration of certain rights should not be construed to deny others to the people, they would have said so.
[re=574063]a_pink_poodle[/re]: Yes! Asians get just as much empathy as other inferior races!
[re=574071]Katydid[/re]: You know, “We the People” don’t like that kind of talk.
[re=574063]a_pink_poodle[/re]: Depends. How do you look in pleather?
And yet somehow you can never get these Original Intent types to agree that the Second Amendment only applies to flintlock muskets.
If the Founding Fathers were The Framers, who painted the picture?
Oooohhh, they’re going with the “empathy” attack, cool. What other sins will they accuse her of, faith, hope, and charity? Mercy and tolerance?
There are two little phrases which I just love, they are not famous quotes, they aren’t anything all that profound, they are pretty self-evident statements about the nature of “charity” and “mercy,” in fact. But when I say them to fucktards and wingnuts, they get all strange and angry and their faces contort, and its almost like their heads are gonna asplode, sometimes. I just say “its not charity if its deserved, that would be wages,” and “its not mercy if they are innocent, thats just justice.”
Its my own personal test, that tells me if someone is a pigfucking douchetard or not. If someone can’t stomach these two statements, and trust me, many conservatives cannot, they are pigfucking douchetards. The kind of people who do truly believe that only those who “deserve it” should receive either charity or mercy. (If there are any of you douchetards out there, you see, the essence of these two things is that they are dispensed not because of the merit of the recipient, they simply cease to be “charity” and “mercy” if you only give them to people you judge “worthy.” Your act of judging, that negates the essence of the virtue.)
How do they feel about genocide?
The Founders, all of whom were of one mind on all issues, knew the Constitution was perfect, that’s why they made sure there was no mechanism to amend it, and certainly never amended it themselves.
I’m waiting for Mary Cheney to make subtle snide slurs about her fitness.
Michael Steele probably has a ‘slave’ with a ball-gag in his basement.
[re=574074]V572625694[/re]: OH LORD JESUS NOOOO
[re=574067]memzilla[/re]: Now, be fair; they also said basically the same thing to mean “we don’t want any New York Mexicans” last year.
This nomination is already looking to be basically a rerun of the last one, except with thinly-veiled homophobia replacing the thinly-veiled racism (the misogyny stays, though).
[re=574082]snideinplainsight[/re]: The dead don’t work cheap.
Wait until they figure out this Kagan isn’t one of the war-mongering, neo-con apoligist Kagans (Fred and Kimberly). The shit will really hit the fan then.
[re=574076]V572625694[/re]: Consider yourself warned.
Strict Constructionism: Angry white wingnut male-ese equivalent of the black justification for the use of N-word. “It’s our words to use as we want, but, no, black folks/other tinted folks/women cannot use it, even if they’re would-be white men.”
Elena Kagan’s endorsement of the empathy standard was resoundingly rejected by the American people when, in a November 2008 landslide, they elected Sarah Palin President-in-Waiting of the United States.
[re=574086]Pop Socket[/re]: When you got those Mary Cheney twisted-steel abs, you can’t help but be a little judgmental.
[re=574089]Smoke Filled Roommate[/re]: He just ball-gags himself because he is a self loather.
A black man hasn’t backpedaled like this since the last time Michael Jackson went moonwalking.
Assuming of course, that Jacko was black.
And human.
[re=574090]a_pink_poodle[/re]: This is what is meant by “democracy”: the white man dispenses empathy, mercy and charity, (thanks, [re=574081]Prommie[/re]!) to all other groups (Blacks, Jews, gays, women, Democrats) according to their worthiness. If only they could all do better!
anyone who claims there’s any such critter as an “activist judge” under the american form of government doesn’t know squat about that form of government, how it works, how its courts work, and what judges do.
these ignoramuses spouting on about “activist judges” make me mad enough hiss, spit, and chew my tail. darn it.
I like this reasoning…
The “Founders” could never have conceived of the idea of airplanes.
So we should immediately abolish the Air Force, the FAA and NASA.
[re=574063]a_pink_poodle[/re]: Only to Black White Whatever.
MY constitution is the original, true word of God – the King James constitution. These libruls think they’re following God’s word with this “politically correct” new Constitution? They’ll burn for this.
[re=574082]snideinplainsight[/re]: Original Intenters ['cause we can't say Founders no more] were ok with the genocide on account of them pesky savages with their distorted non-English attitudes toward land titles.
[re=574112]slappypaddy[/re]: Can I watch?
[re=574112]slappypaddy[/re]: “activist judges” is confederate for “desegregated the schools and let my daughter get an abortion.” Its as directly racist, though deeply coded, an epithet as the n-word itself. “Tough on crime,” thats code for “tough in lawless coons.” Welfare reform, thats confederate for “quit takin’ my money and givin’ it to shiftless coons.” “Original intent, I think, as with “states’ rights,” that means “they were better off as slaves, they liked it.”
“basing judicial decisions based on” … nice.
[re=574089]Smoke Filled Roommate[/re]: Are you implying he’s a top? Everything about his public persona would seem contrary to that assumption.
Yesterday I went to Beloit College graduation where Davis Axelrod gave the address.
It was a wonderful speech about hope, charity, service and appreciation for family.
He said “we all need to make a living but we can’t forget to make a life.
Very inspiring and comforting.
Then we have all the fucking assholes who want their country back without the intellect and compassion needed to lead. They’ve had their chance many times and every time they fucked it up.
All they offer is comic relief for those who get it.
[re=574134]Prommie[/re]: “activist judges” is confederate for “desegregated the schools and let my daughter get an abortion.”
Yes on the desegregation part, but these people get surprisingly pro-choice when they or their daughters get knocked up. The correct interpretation should say “…and let other people’s daughters get abortions”.
[re=574142]rev_matt_y[/re]: Well, he also brings in a Jefferson Davis look-a-like to spin Barry Manilow records…it’s complicated.
[re=574148]rocktonsammy[/re]:
David not Davis
The Founding Fathers’ God told them to make the “chicken fried steak” the national bird.
Today we are all oppressed-wanna-be-slaveholders
[re=574119]Johnny Zhivago[/re]: winz
[re=574134]Prommie[/re]: well, that explains it. the confederates never did much understand the american form of government.
The sooner Justice Taney gets back on the bench, the better.
Thank god Dredd Scott was never officially overruled. That way, Hopey leaving the District will have no effect on his status as property.
[re=574071]Katydid[/re]: My recollection is that all America Really Wants is a good 5-cent cigar.
America never gets what it wants. America is going to go up to its room now and pout.
So, according to the picture, the Founding Fathers liked all-male S&M clubs, while the modern RNC likes all-female B&D clubs. Completely different, and yet totally the same.
[re=574171]bureaucrap[/re]: Prespikely so. Just ask Monica and K-Lo. Don’t want no Irving Kristol spore when you can have the real tobacco road.
[re=574081]Prommie[/re]:
The quality of mercy is not strain’d,
It falleth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:
‘Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown;
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptred sway,
It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,
It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God’s
When mercy seasons justice.
[re=574189]CthuNHu[/re]: Needs more Dale Jr.
[re=574189]CthuNHu[/re]: It should be noted that Portia was masquerading as a lawyer when she said that, which of course renders her thesis completely inadmissable.
[re=574189]CthuNHu[/re]: What kind of Commie, Socialist, FOREIGN(!!!) bullshit is this???
I am surprised Mr. Steele has time for this when he must be busy in rehersals for the revival of Uncle Tom’s cabin. Of course Steele stars as the chief Tom for the GOP.
[re=574197]ThePuckStopsHere[/re]: Yah Mate! It’s not even bloody English!! Fookin’ WOGs…
Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.
P e r f e c t i o n .
[re=574189]CthuNHu[/re]:
Communist! What is that, Russian?
[re=574081]Prommie[/re]: That’s just fuckin’ beautiful. I think I love you.
remind me again how this party controlled the country for 8 fucking years.
Oh, that’s right, it’s US Merika, with the government we deserve.
“Both your slaves, and your bondmaids, which you shall have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall you buy slaves and bondmaids.” -Leviticus 25:44
[re=574195]Snarkalicious[/re]: VRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMM!!!11!
Great, so now I gotta get rid of the gimp I have in the basement?
[re=574081]Prommie[/re]: Hey, thanks. Shit like this is why I read Wonkette. [goes off to get a magic marker to write on palm: "Charity/Wages Mercy/Justice"]
Rubbing hands with glee, waiting, waiting for next local winger to start farting about “welfare” so I can light that neat little ass-burning match…
Waiting for the remake of “Birth of a Nation”, these folks are now the #TeaBagKlan just #TBK for short, now it will be called “Birth of the Knation”
[re=574246]plowman[/re]:
I can do research too.
Leviticus 25:44) – “As for your male and female slaves whom you may have—you may acquire male and female slaves from the pagan nations that are around you.”
In the fallen world that mankind had created, slavery was a reality. God permitted its existence and worked within its system. Slaves were more domestic servants than oppressed field workers. Slaves could be the captives of war (Num. 31:25-47), subjects of debt to be worked off (2 Kings 4:1), born into slavery (Gen. 17:12-13), or entered into voluntarily (Exodus 21:5-6). In the Ancient Near East, some slaves were able to own other slaves and even conduct business and in Exodus 21:2 a slave was required to be set free after six years of service. Though slavery carries a very negative connotation here in America, it was not nearly as bad it was here in the first 100 years of our nation’s existence.
As I said above, God works within the fallen system to bring about His will. Slavery was permitted by God and rules of treatment of slaves were given so that they would not be mistreated.
[re=574305]Pandy[/re]: will you be my slave? i’ll teach you how to work within my fallen system as i do my will upon you, my property. i promise i won’t hurt you, much, unless i want to.
will you be my slave? will you kneel at my feet when i demand it? will you sing and dance for me when i order you to? have you felt the taste of the lash? how many stripes do you think you could bear? could you even handle thirty-nine?
will you be my slave? it may not be as you may imagine. you may not be able to find any useful referent for the actual experience in your middle eastern tales from 3000 years ago.
will you be my slave?
[re=574305]Pandy[/re]: Every time I think about maybe considering a religion, something like this makes me realize why I dislike it so much.
[re=574305]Pandy[/re]: rabbi pandy?!?! is that you?!?!
“But now the RNC has “clarified” its position on slavery.”
Yeah, ‘red and yellow, black and white’ all can be slaves in the GOP’s sight.
Seriously, if they could *buy* a woman to cook, clean, provide buttsecks, etc., how many Republibubbas would be tempted? No alimony when you traded her in on a newer model. Wouldn’t have to pay to send the kids to college, just sell’em. Or put’em to work, buy booze etc., with their pay. That was how the Roman Republic worked.
Zhu Bajie
[re=574081]Prommie[/re]: This is why I read Wonkette. Sometimes, in the middle of all the snark, rage, cheap puns and dick jokes, there are actual pearls of wisdom. I thank you and salute you. Seriously.
[re=574063]a_pink_poodle[/re]: Don’t you think the Republibubbas who want a cook-clean-sex slave have wet dreams about Asian women? Little knowing just how strong-minded zhong guo nu ren are!
Did any of you ever doubt that present-day Conservatives wanted to bring back slavery, or at least Jim Crow?
[re=574148]rocktonsammy[/re]: Look how prosperous and happy Alabama and Mississippi are! Surely everyone would like the be the same?
[re=574305]Pandy[/re]: The Bible is not the Constitution of the United States. Nor was it the constitution or law of the colonies. Slave codes were based on Roman slave law, not the Bible. Hence, no slave owner in the “good old days” [Ha!] ever freed their slaves in the seventh year.
Please go to Mars or some place farther off to found your Biblicalidolotrist utopia. I have no desire to be the slave of some conservacrook.
[re=574082]snideinplainsight[/re]: If it happens to someone else, they probably deserve it. On the other hand, the sufferings of the Confederates deserves endless amounts of pity, especially self-pity.
[re=574108]V572625694[/re]: Actually, “democracy” means what the Greeks are doing right now: attacking their politicians when they screw ordinary people over too much. US pol.s are just as bad or worse, but they don’t fear ordinary people will punish them. Hence the US has oligarchy, not democracy.
The wingnuts *think* they are the majority but they are not. They dream of punishing the rest of us for not being obedient. But they’d lose worse than in the 1860s, if it came to a real fight.
[re=574335]gurukalehuru[/re]: i read wonkette for all those reasons too…but also where else can i say Buttseks and be understood and loved…amirite? amirite?
and snarky i’m still not gonna allow you to make me spew fluids today!!!
[re=574413]PlanetWingnuta[/re]: Spewing fluids, thats one thing, but real joy is spurting, spurting fluids. Twirling, twirling, always twirling towards freedom, also.
[re=574335]gurukalehuru[/re]: Aww, Prommie straight.
[re=574319]slappypaddy[/re]: [re=574323]KnaveOfDiamonds[/re]: [re=574327]leaveskoalrebelalone[/re]: [re=574345]zhubajie[/re]: pandy bad, very bad.
[re=574418]Prommie[/re]: Okay then, I think I love you!
Steele’s not black. We took his membership card back.
[re=574418]Prommie[/re]: what’s a spurter?
[re=574465]Shot at Wolf[/re]: The line forms on the right.
[re=574502]PlanetWingnuta[/re]: For making with the spurting.
[re=574080]Mr Blifil[/re]: WIN!
The dingbat wrote “The question for Kagan is whether she believes in a ‘modern Constitution’ shaped by activist judges pursuing personal political agendas or whether she believes in basing judicial decisions based on the Constitution and the rule of law.”
That’s a circular arguement. Either way, the decision is based on the Constitution.
The question: Which Constitution? The 27.0 one we have here today, in 2010, the 21st Century, or are we going to continue to claim we must use the 18th Century 1783 version?
As Media Matters for America pointed out, most “activist” judges are overturning legislation passed by Congress. In other words, Conservative.
Don’t forget the phrase “legislatin’ from the bench,” which is code for “doin’ the job of the f#ckin’ Congress even though said body is a waste of space and could not possibly do any worse–dammit!”
Finally. SOMEONE is taking a stand.
I doubt there are many people on earth who can win a fair verbal fight vs. Kagan. Have at it, Mr. Brown.
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