Some things stink no matter how hard you polish them - Kagan needs to step away from Obamacare

I don’t have much to say when some liberal criticizes Dick Cheney for his connection to Haliburton and the lucrative contracts the latter achieved rebuilding Iraq. I don’t know that anything improper occurred regarding the way the contracts were awarded. In a sense, it doesn’t matter. The appearance of malfeasance can be as harmful as actual malfeasance.

Considering, newly released documents showing that Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan was involved in crafting legal arguments to support Obamacare are a slam dunk as far as determining her status when Obamacare finally makes its way to the Supreme Court. She needs to step aside.

As a journalism student, I attended a class where we discussed journalistic impropriety. We discussed the need to guard against, not just impropriety, but the appearance that things are not done on the up and up. We understood that the reputation of our profession and our individual publications were at stake. Of course, considering the state of journalism today, that’s kind of like trying to polish and wax a turd; even if it shines, it still stinks.

The harm that Cheney and Haliburton wrought was in terms of the doubt people harbored about the propriety of their government. Even worse, it offered an excuse for the opposition, which hardly needs an excuse, to act in a similar manner. Clearly, Obama has carried that idea to the 10^th power.

It’s like Bill Clinton arguing that oral sex is not sex. He knows no reasonable individual would buy that load of manure but, as a legal argument, it worked. And, as for his reputation, well, some people have short or selective memories.

Too many people in politics are more worried about what they can get away with than in defending truth and justice. It demonstrates an arrogance that’s hard to fathom and is rich with opportunity for someone who doesn’t have a great degree of circumspection for our republic to begin with – such as the neo-socialists currently occupying the White House and several offices across the street.

We, as Americans, have become accustomed to the appearance of impropriety. We’ve been reduced to accepting semantic arguments where a lack of clarity is only suggested as a tactical defense. Obama and the radical liberals among us have dragged us even further down that path to the point where it’s no longer merely a problem of tactics but of a broader strategic crisis.

Cheney should have put the brakes on Haliburton and Kagan needs to step aside. From what I’ve seen and heard of her attitude about the Constitution, from which she derives her power, she should step aside permanently. And, as long as you’re going, Mz. Kagan, do you mind taking that fraud from the White House with you?