With President Obama’s selection of Sonia Sotomayor for Supreme Court Justice has shown what we can expect over the next four years in terms of Judicial appointments.  It’s all about race, it’s all about style over substance.  I had no idea that being overturned by the Supreme Court was a glowing example of the qualifications needed to sit on the highest court in the land.

 

Reading some of the media’s reaction though you would think she was a great jurist rather than someone who has been on the wrong side of constitution most of her career.  I love the headline by the Wall Street Journal “Record Shows Rulings Within Liberal Mainstream” excuse me?  Liberal and Mainstream are two words that very rarely should be used in the same story let alone in the same sentence.  Liberalism by it’s defined ideals is outside the mainstream.  The media is running around stating that she has had a pro business ruling, one, big deal.  If you dig deep into Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s record you can probably find one instance when she made a ruling that was pro business.  Doesn’t make her mainstream.

 

Republicans predictably don’t know what to do yet other than say that they will be fair but are going to ask tough questions.  Yeah right, forgive me if I am not a believer, Senate Republican’s likely do what they do best, roll over and play dead.  It will be up to the grass roots to get this nomination killed and it won’t be done with republicans only because let’s be real.  In the end we know that Obama can depend on McCain, Lindsay Graham, Susan Collins, etc to give in.  No if America has any hope of killing this it will be Democrats in largely conservative states that have a reelection coming in 2010.  Harry Reid being at the top of the list.

This being the inaugural post of the Blog Conservative Matters I feel to need to ask the question above.  Now for those of you who are inherently liberal you will no doubt find several examples of when government was the solution to a problem.  However being conservative I will first likely debate who created the problem in the first place and with that most of the time if you remove the liberals in government who created the problem then you have solved the problem. 

 

In fact I can only think of war against our aggressors as a problem government can solve and most of the time even that is necessary because we listened to liberals and allowed history to repeat itself thus forcing us to take some military action against some aggressor that has done or means to do us harm.

 

Take for example the current recession.  This recession was brought about by mismanagement of the mortgage markets particularly Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.  Now for some strange reason most of the people in this country think that those two entities are private banks or privately owned institutions.  This couldn’t be further from the truth.  Freddie and Fannie are creations of government charged with making loans to those with a questionable ability to repay.

 

In 2003 the Bush Administration seeing a crisis on the horizon asked for an overhaul of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae by creating an oversight agency within the Treasury Department that would have oversee Freddie and Fannie.  Would that have fixed the problem, probably not but Senator Chris Dodd, and Congressman Barney Frank insisted there was nothing wrong and wouldn’t allow even discussion of further oversight.

 

Now we have Obama acting as chairman and ceo of General Motors, Chrysler, Bank of America, and several other banks and insurance companies.  Where is the constitutional authority to take over private business, where does it stop, what businesses are deemed ok to fail?  Why do taxpayers have to fund this boondoggle?  We already know it doesn’t work, when President Bush initiated this bailout last fall we were told that GM and Chrysler couldn’t be allowed to go through bankruptcy that it would put too many people out of work yet where are we today?  Chrysler has already entered bankruptcy, GM will within days, they have closed down plants, suppliers are going under at an alarming rate, dealerships are going under.  And where have the billions of dollars gone?

 

Obama has yet to fully take on HealthCare, his other attempts being a guide I don’t think Obama can handle 3 1/2 more years of him “fixing” things.  It’s clear that he has dropped the ball on North Korea and Iran.  We are a weaker nation today than we were four months ago, unfortunately thanks largely to his socialist policies we are also a poorer nation as well.