So some people are upset and thinking Pat Buchanan is being bigoted here. I am not sure I agree with the complaints. I mean if gays can want a gay on the court and women want a woman and blacks want a black - I don't think Pat Buchanan is being entirely unreasonable. I mean I would love a homo on the bench when Gay Marriage comes up (I will never get it, but I want it none the less).
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Pat's Quote that has people all hot and bothered...
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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.
If Kagan is confirmed, Jews, who represent less than 2 percent of the U.S. population, will have 33 percent of the Supreme Court seats.
Is this the Democrats' idea of diversity?But while leaders in the black community may be upset, the folks who look more like the real targets of liberal bias are white Protestants and Catholics, who still constitute well over half of the U.S. population.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.
What happened to the party of the Daleys, Rizzos and Rostenkowskis?And not in nearly half a century has a Democratic president nominated a white Protestant or white Catholic man or woman.
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If Kagan is confirmed, the Court will consist of three Jews and six Catholics (who represent not quite a fourth of the country), but not a single Protestant, though Protestants remain half the nation and our founding faith.
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I tend to agree that Catholics and people of Jewish faith might be over-represented. And, with the exception of Sonja Sotomayor who hasn't ruled yet, the Catholics tend to follow the Vatican's line with respect to gays and abortion.