Drudge's Current Headline is Wrong

...and we need to get on the same page with this, with the correct reading.

As I wrote earlier:

Translation [ace]: As lefties are suggesting idiotic interpretations, and even some on the right are getting it wrong, here's what he's saying:

1. The Supreme Court never considered "redistribution of wealth" or "economic justice" among the guarantees provided to citizens.

2. Even the Warren Court was not "radical" enough to do so -- to impose real "redistributive change" on the nation.

3. The courts have generally provided negative constraints on the government rather than positive obligations the government owes to its citizens (specifically, here, such as economic justice and redistribution of wealth).

4. Therefore, it is a "tragedy" that the civil rights movement became so courts-focused, because it limited what redress they could actually obtain -- and it took attention away from the "community organizing" efforts which could assemble "coalitions of power" (political power, that is) to actually achieve "redistributive change." Such change simply could not be had in the courts, still laboring under the "constraints" imposed by the Founding Fathers.

5. "And in some ways we still suffer from that."

And do note that Obama is currently on the brink of achieving the ultimate "community organizing" position, the ultimate assembler of "coalitions of power," and the current top legislative position (and yes, the President is the most important legislator in the country, through proposing/advocating legislation and signing it into law) that will allow him to pursue the "redistributive change" the Warren Court was, tragically, insufficiently radical to contemplate.

Although this misinterpretation has forced Obama into a disastrous spin -- a spin that happens to be the truth. His camp is saying, "Oh no we don't think the courts can impose that, only the political branches can."

Yes, I know, Obama.

And what position are you currently seeking -- Supreme Court justice or head of the political branches?

But... his quote does mention, at the end, that he could construct a "legal theory" justifying the wholesale redistribution of wealth by the Courts.

Still, it's obvious that his preferred method of achieving this goal is by assembling "coalitions of power" through "community organizing."

This has been his life's work, and he's on the brink of achieving it.

posted by Ace at 05:45 PM

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