Bush should nominate Janice Rogers Brown

You really only need to ask one question of a U.S. Supreme Court nominee: Does the Constitution mean what it says? If the answer is "yes," the nominee should be approved.

People For the American Way has a page called "Janice Rogers Brown: In Her Own Words" that purports to be a list of quotes proving that Judge Brown was unqualified for the federal appeals court. To me it's a litany of reasons why she should be elevated to the Supreme Court as soon as possible. Maybe I'm missing something. Or maybe People For the American Way is.

"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit."

"Where government advances – and it advances relentlessly – freedom is imperiled; community impoverished; religion marginalized and civilization itself jeopardized. ...When did government cease to be a necessary evil and become a goody bag to solve our private problems?"

"[W]e no longer find slavery abhorrent. We embrace it. We demand more. Big government is not just the opiate of the masses. It is the opiate. The drug of choice for multinational corporations and single moms; for regulated industries and rugged Midwestern farmers and militant senior citizens."

"Protection of property was a major casualty of the Revolution of 1937…Rights were reordered and property acquired a second class status...It thus became government’s job not to protect property but, rather, to regulate and redistribute it. And, the epic proportions of the disaster which has befallen millions of people during the ensuing decades has not altered our fervent commitment to statism."

And one gem that PFTW missed: "Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase." This sounds like my kind of Supreme Court justice!