The Black Republican

Senator Chuckie Schumer of New York State, one of the more disingenuous people on the planet, weighed in on the nomination of Sam Alito the other day. And, as comparison to Alito, he referred back to the work on the Supreme Court of Sandra Day O'Connor, time and again.

"Now, it's sad that the president felt he had to pick a nominee likely to divide America instead of choosing a nominee in the mold of Sandra Day O'Connor who would unify us."

Reality Check Part A: And when did O'Connor accomplish that feat? We were last unified when?

"The president had an opportunity to nominate someone in the mold of Sandra Day O'Connor, a mainstream, albeit conservative, who would unite the country, not further decide us. At first blush, Judge Alito does not appear to be a Sandra Day O'Connor."

We can only hope you are right Chuckie that Alito isn't an ill-defined Justice like O'Connor, whom, by the way failed to unite us.

"Sandra Day O'Connor has said she will serve until the position is filled."

This can not come too soon to suit this writer.

"I'd say this is a more serious decision than the vote on Judge Roberts, because Sandra Day O'Connor is such a swing vote."

This was his last mention of O'Connor on this transcript, and perhaps the most telling, especially when coupled with this concept:

"This is a nominee who could shift the balance of the court, and thus the laws of the nation, for decades to come."

It is that "swing vote' the Democrats are really looking for. A "swing vote"(r) is like a moderate, someone who doesn't hold a consistent belief, but, rather, changes according to the whim of the day. And it is that malleability which the Democrats hope to continue to exploit, they wish to maintain the "balance" of the Court, by which they mean they wish to have the Ninth justice be a person lacking in convictions that they can coddle and nurture and thereby persuade to vote their way.

Reality Check part B: If Sandra Day O'Connor was the Solomon they insinuate her to be, the other eight Justices would not have been needed for the last twenty five years; we could have just let Sandy decide all of the cases. So, according to the Democrat's thinking, we wasted the salaries paid to the other eight over the last quarter century. We could have just let Sandy decide everything with her balanced, swinging vote; and we could have used the money saved to throw a keg party, I suppose. Now, that is swinging.