Posted by
KsReaganite on Wednesday, December 17, 2008 12:14:58 AM
KsReaganite has been on the road in snow covered Colorado for much of the weekend and week and hence little updating. And no, I am not auditioning for the Salazar seat. But I did want to take a few moments to share my praise for one Obama cabinet appointment. In selecting the former Democrat governor of Iowa Tom Vilsack as his agriculture nominee, the president elect has shown a rare spark of independence from the lobbyist-lawyer-feminist lobby which generally owns most liberal Democratic office holders in Washington. Few governors, and even fewer Democrat ones at that, have had the guts to take on the feminist-lawyer establishment on behalf of children whose homes have been broken by the selfishness of a parent or parents. Tom Vilsack is one such rarity. A lawyer himself, Gov.Vilsack pushed through legislation-against intense opposition from the bar association, radical feminists, social welfare bureaucrats, the entire state Democratic leadership, and even some Republicans-to establish the legal principle that children of divorce have a fundamental right to have both parents in their lives. Though the liberal dominated Iowa Supreme Court has watered down some of the provisions of that very important law, the principle it enshrined has given future generations a platform to fight more effectively for children's rights.
I only hope that Tom Vilsack will not lose his sense of fairness and common decency as he joins a cabinet that is dominated by men and women bought and paid for by the American Bar Association, civil servant labor unions, and radical feminists.
Here's raising a glass of the best bourbon (made of Iowa corn) to you Governor..er..Mr. Secretary.