Pat Buchanan: With Kagan, too many Jews on Supreme Court bench

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Buchanan: With Kagan, too many Jews on Supreme Court bench

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0514/buchanan-too-many-jews-supreme-court/

Given Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's general lack of a judicial record, conservative opponents of the Obama administration are having some difficulty finding an issue on which to criticize the former Harvard Law dean and current solicitor-general.

Which is not to say they're not trying: There is the issue of Kagan's sexuality, which has become a source of discontent for some right-wing pundits; and there's also the standard fall-back accusation against anyone suspected of not being conservative -- the "socialist" label.

But conservative commentator Pat Buchanan has found a different way to criticize the president's choice of Supreme Court judge: Kagan's Jewishness.

"If Kagan is confirmed, Jews, who represent less than 2 percent of the US population, will have 33 percent of the Supreme Court seats," Buchanan wrote in a column for WorldNetDaily on Friday. "Is this the Democrats' idea of diversity?"

In his column, Buchanan argued the Democrats have been hypocritical in claiming to be the party of ethnic and racial diversity because their Supreme Court picks don't reflect the US's ethnic and religious breakdown.

Not since Thurgood Marshall, 43 years ago, has a Democratic president chosen an African-American. The lone sitting black justice is Clarence Thomas, nominated by George H. W. Bush. And Thomas was made to run a gauntlet by Senate liberals.

Indeed, of the last seven justices nominated by Democrats JFK, LBJ, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, one was black, Marshall; one was Puerto Rican, Sonia Sotomayor. The other five were Jews: Arthur Goldberg, Abe Fortas, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan....

Not in living memory has a Democratic president nominated an Irish, Italian or Polish Catholic, though these ethnic communities once gave the party its greatest victories in the cities and states of the North. ... And not in nearly half a century has a Democratic president nominated a white Protestant or white Catholic man or woman.

[gratuitous]

1. How about the number of Catholics, Mr. Buchanan?

There seems to be a disproportionate representation there.

Hilarious, though, in that for "the last seven justices nominated by Democrats," Pat has to go all the way back to JFK and the early 1960s. How far back would he have to go to sample the last seven justices nominated by Republicans? What a disingenuous little man Mr. Buchanan is.

[miscsoc]

7. yeah, he has to perform some extraordinary feats of bullshit right there

in order to complain about how catholics are discriminated against wrt the fucking SUPREME COURT which is only marginally less papish than the damned vatican

[Fuzz]

2. Hitler never got to finish the job.

Freakin' idiot Buchanan.

[opihimoimoi]

3. Its a NAZI PLOT I TELL YA

[Happyhippychick]

5. Someone saw Lewis Black on the Daily Show last night....

:)

[Happyhippychick]

4. And do men make up 70% of the population? Stupid fucking idiot.

[bridgit]

6. Buchanan *is* America's bumper crop of whack & Irish white supremacy

ON JEWS:

Buchanan referred to Capitol Hill as "Israeli-occupied territory." (St. Louis Post Dispatch, 10/20/90)

During the Gulf crisis: "There are only two groups that are beating the drums for war in the Middle East -- the Israeli defense ministry and its 'amen corner' in the United States." ("McLaughlin Group," 8/26/90)

In a 1977 column, Buchanan said that despite Hitler's anti-Semitic and genocidal tendencies, he was "an individual of great courage...Hitler's success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading as morality that was in the hearts of the statesmen who stood in his path." (The Guardian, 1/14/92)

Writing of "group fantasies of martyrdom," Buchanan challenged the historical record that thousands of Jews were gassed to death by diesel exhaust at Treblinka: "Diesel engines do not emit enough carbon monoxide to kill anybody." (New Republic, 10/22/90) Buchanan's columns have run in the Liberty Lobby's Spotlight, the German-American National PAC newsletter and other publications that claim Nazi death camps are a Zionist concoction.

http://frank.mtsu.edu/~baustin/buchanan.html