Kiss Your independence Goodbye!
Enjoy the three day weekend and the BBQ people, then grab your ankles and get ready for a heapin' helpin' of Jesus and no more liberty! We will always remember July 4th, 2005, the 229th birthday of the "Land of the Free" as the acceleration of her undoing. Yes, the unexpected retirement of Sandra Day O'Connor opens the door for Bush's buddies to install an intolerant asshole into the nation's highest court, and WE LOSE. Religious kooks, big business, and those already with the power WIN.
O'Connor was no great thinker, a patronage appointed state-level justice from Arizona, brought to the bench by Ronald Reagan, if memory serves me correct which it didn't him. To their credit, some Reagan and Bush Sr. appointees have been willing to consider alternative views and legal precedent to truly test the legality of passed legislation over an ideological rubber stamp. This is what the court is supposed to do, and hard liners on both sides put party and ideology over common sense and law.
Now the Bush camp will seek the most loyal, unwavering, Jesus-believin' rubber stamp'in, business friendly, science hater they can find, a complete robotic dupe of the religious right!
You will see a melding of church and state into a Jesus machine that will tatoo the 10 commandments on every child next to the homeland security inventory number and GPS chip. CEOs will extort and walk free, reproductive liberties will go away and religious studies will replace science in the classroom.
There is nothing we can do about it. We'll see legislation from the bench and agendas forwarded for every good Bush contributor for the next 20 years.
More to come on this one. Aren't you glad some people didn't vote because they didn't think it would make a difference?
Maybe there is an upside in that the actions over the next few weeks will seed the revolution.
I've said it before-- With every day that I tear off of the calendar it gets closer to 1984.
posted by Schmootzie @ 7:58 AM
2 Comments:
Don't be too sure. The more the so called christian right rails against Gonzales, the more likely it is Bush will appoint him. The dubya is nothing if not stubborn, and he views Gonzales as a close personal friend.
Gonzales record as a judge is pretty moderate. Most or the Democratic leadership would welcome him as a justice, which means the pres could avoid a nasty senate fight and filibuster. I'm betting on Alberto!
I see your point, but I think that the next retirements and replacements have been strategically decided for a long time. There is a religious kook base that demands to be satisfied.
What are all of the moderate Republicans going to do? Vote for a Democrat? No way!
I'm betting on George W. Bush privately nominating Aquaman, then Karl Rove reminding him to "read the card that daddy filled out".
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