Disrobed

In the spirit of Jon Swift, I’m going to review Mark W. Smith’s Disrobed: The New Battle Plan to Break the Left’s Stranglehold on the Courts without reading it. In fact, I think all I have to read is this part of the description:

America’s courts, legal culture, and law schools remain solidly in the Left’s camp. Decades of liberal legal precedents fill volumes of law tomes. Absent a sweeping change—precisely what bestselling author Mark W. Smith calls for in Disrobed—liberals will ruthlessly exploit their dominant position in the law to continue advancing their radical agenda, as they have for the past seventy years.

Smith, a nationally recognized attorney, lays out an aggressive new battle plan to thwart the liberal assault on America by turning the courts into allies of the conservative movement. Be warned, Disrobed is not for the fainthearted. Smith implores conservatives: Toss out practically everything you think you know about courts, judges, and American law—because it’s naive, anachronistic, and self-defeating.

Yes, that must be it. You might think that with Republicans in Control of the House, the Senate, and the Presidency, they’d be able to get stuff done. But you’d be wrong. Liberal courts have ruined nearly all their plans.

• It’s the liberal courts that have prevented the Republican House and the Republican Senate from passing a Social Security privatization bill for the Republican President to sign.
• It’s the liberal courts that forced the Republican House and the Republican Senate to pass the enormous Medicare drug bill, creating a trillion dollars of future entitlements, and then forced the Republican President to sign it.
• It’s the liberal courts that kept the tax cuts from becoming permanent.
• It’s the liberal courts that kept the estate tax from being repealed.
• It’s the liberal courts that prevented Republicans from enacting their large-scale plans for school vouchers, forcing them to settle for the failed-schools-only voucher plan of the No Child Left Behind Act, and it’s the liberal courts that nearly gutted even that voucher plan, leaving only a federal monitoring program.
• It’s the liberal courts that forced the creation of yet another cabinet-level department.
• It’s the liberal courts that forced the federal deficit up far higher than it was when President Bush came to office.
• It’s the liberal courts that caused Tom DeLay’s ethical troubles.
• It’s the liberal courts that provided bad intelligence about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, and it’s the liberal courts that have caused the Iraq war to last as long as it has.
• It’s the liberal courts that made sure FEMA was run by an unqualified political hack.

Good thing someone is speaking out about those damned judges that have caused all this trouble!