Shorter Ezra Klein: “But… But… Reagan’s Top Lawyer!”
Posted by RB in Blog on March 29, 2012 10:00 am / 4 comments
Little Ezra Klein, the guy who once said people don’t care about the constitution because it’s like over a hundred years old, thinks he has found the rhetorical dagger to combat the fact that it seems very likely the Supreme Court will overturn the individual mandate. He’s joined by his fellow WashingtonPost hack, Greg Sargent.
You see, there’s this lawyer going around who says that the mandate is constitutional. His name is Charles Fried. Ezra Klein has suddenly become a huge fan. The reason Klein and Sargent are big fans is because this Fried guy was once the Solicitor General… under Ronald Reagan.
Their thinking goes like this: Conservatives love Reagan so they’d obviously think the mandate is constitutional if someone who worked under Reagan thinks it’s constitutional.
Stop laughing. I know it’s hilarious that they’re even trying this angle but they’re serious! Don’t make them feel bad.
It would be totally rude if we were to point out that someone else has a direct connection with Reagan, who is clearly more important than Charles Fried, and is clearly having issues with the whole concept of the government mandating that individuals must by a commercial product. It’s almost like the two Washington Post hacks didn’t know that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was appointed by Ronald Reagan. So was Justice Anthony Kennedy.
You know who wasn’t appointed to the Supreme Court by Ronald Reagan? Charles Fried.
You know whose name didn’t even get mentioned as a potential Supreme Court Justice during Reagan’s presidency? Charles Fried.
I wonder why.
UPDATE: Now Media Matters Senior Intern, Eric Boehlert, and ThinkProgress are promoting the “Reagan’s Top Lawyer” fallacy. It appears the idiot left thinks they’ve seized on a valid point. Of course, for the reasons I explain above, it’s moronic to use this angle.
UPDATE #2: Courtesy of James Taranto.
That’s right, folks. “Reagan’s Top Lawyer”, the guy who was never considered by Reagan for a Supreme Court nomination, wrote an article titled “Obama Is Too Good For Us.” This is their ace in the hole.
LMAO!
UPDATE #3: Dan McLaughlin, @BaseballCrank on Twitter, takes the “Reagan’s Top Lawyer” fallacy on in this excellent, and sober, assessment of the narrative the left is trying to build.
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[...] Posted by RB in Blog on March 29, 2012 10:00 am / no comments [...]
Ezra Klein has not only come late to the Dance but failed to even find the building. This person should have been out front & center on this if he REALLY believed this to be true. It is not so he is doing damage control for the Present Administration. Why else is he even bringing this up after the arguments have been made, shot down & rolled over.
Media hounds & people who attempt to revive themselves by themselves never succeed. Just ask Arlen Specter. Ezra could have gone out of this world with a little dignity before this attempt from the White House to rewrite his past & future. Looks like everything they touch turns to crap.
At least that is my take on the matter.
This is the sort of thing that makes talking to leftists painful. They’re like little kids. “But but some republican likes it so you should too!” Or my favorite variation on the same foot-stomping, breath-holding whine: “But but a conservative did it first!!”
Frankly, I don’t care if Reagan himself thought an individual mandate was the best thing since sliced bread. Wow! Wrap your mind around that; I think for myself and don’t follow like a mindless sheeple when some conservative says or does something. And I don’t care who did what first or whose best friend’s neighbor’s dog likes what. But then, most conservatives aren’t swayed by that stuff. And the reason is simple, we are grounded in principle.
The only reason the left does it is because they are grounded in absolutely nothing, not principles, not morals, not nothing. That’s why they are twisting themselves into knots trying to defend Obama’s doing so much that President Bush did in terms of wars, Gitmo, the Patriot Act, TSA, etc. It’s not principle for them, it’s party. They’re the children in the room; we’re the grown ups who must suffer their childish rantings with as much patience as we can summon. For me, that’s not much.
I love the comments on blogs like this. @Gandallf – Charles Fried is perhaps the most well known constitutional scholar in the United States. He testified in support of the nomination of Cheif Justice Roberts. It is almost comical that you mindless dittoheads think everyone – EVERYONE – has a political agenda. Fried’s argument is simply that politics has no place in this discussion. He’s right about that. However, it’s evident from Scalia parroting the tea party talking points that politics is the issue now. @Fuzzy – just a few generalizations in there.