Posted by
Longplay on Thursday, February 19, 2009 8:14:21 PM
By now most of us have heard about Attorney General Holder's rascist comments. They're all over the airwaves and the blogs, including
this one from the great Michelle Malkin. While it's obvious who's the real coward and rascist in this, I want to look at this from another angle, that it serves as an example of something the Left has pushed in all areas of society, namely "grade inflation".
Usually by grade inflation we mean the liberal educational ploy of lowering the bar on grades to make it appear that more students are achieving, and as a side-benefit, to heighten the self-esteem of both the teacher and pupil. This is certainly a problem and just as certainly one promoted by Leftist "educational" theory and practice. But this concept can also increasingly applied to the practice of inflating oneself, also most often seen in left-leaners.
Teaachers can not anymore be merely purveyors of the understanding of math, science, history, and literature anymore. Instead they must be therapists for our children, leading them into the adult years before their time. I faced this head-on in a Madison, Wisconsin, PTA meeting where an excited young third-grade teacher gushed over how exciting it was to discuss with her young males boys how exciting it was that they were finding they had hair "in new places". This was in a school that refused to have students memorize multiplication tables.
Judges cannot just be judges anymore, applying the law as given to them, by those whose job it is to make law. No, they must be legislators, and more than that, must be legislators and transformers not just of their defined jurisdiction, but of the world, and often invoking international law as precedent.
Presidents can not just be presidents anymore, running the machinery of the state as outlined in the Constitution. They must be saviors of the world, raisers of oceans. Does anyone think that if Mr. Obama was the first President, he would have stepped down after his term had ended?
And now we have Eric Holder, the Attoney General, inflating himself into national scold - or worse. Since when has that office been used as a bully pulpit?
And what exactly is he threatening to do that wouldn't be beyond the bounds of his designated power? To force racial desegregation in our neighborhoods will he somehow and begin forcing people from their homes - and this with no law written to allow it?
Will he decide, in retaliation for the supposed crime of police stopping someone for "driving while black", to begin arresting people for "living while white"?
But then I suppose this should be expected from a member of the gang (literally) that thinks the Supreme Court should "break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers" in the Constitution.
The job of Attorney General? Why, it's powers are just what I say they are.