I’m sure there are some fools who still believe they are fair, but real justice died the day Scalia, Thomas, Alito, and Roberts became the gang of 4 plus one. I have absolutely no respect for Scalia at all and very very little for Roberts and the rest of the republicans. They follow marching orders from the federalist society and fox news.

IF a D is elected Pres., no appointments to the scotus will be permitted by the R’s, just like they did when clinton was in office. They will bide their time, while they blame the new D Pres. for everything that’s ever been wrong on earth. The sucker-headed public will buy that line, elect another R in ‘12, and that Pres. will complete the transformation of the scotus into an permanent wing of the R party (which statistically it already is).

R appointees to the bench have no qualms whatever about lying to congress. R’s have internalized “game theory” to the extent they’ve completely lost touch with reality, so “lying” is not really lying to them anymore. Roberts and Alito both lied through their teeth in their confirmation hearings. All of W’s Attorneys General have lied with complete abandon. The public is too stupid to notice, the press is too cynical to care, so we end up with a political party in exclusive control of the Law of the Land.

A legitimate Attorney General, and a legitimate Supreme Court would have the Republican Party indicted and tried under racketeering statutes. Never has more ciminal activity taken place in broad daylight without attention from Law Enforcement.

Some Martin Luther from the Bar Association desperately needs to make him/herself the spokesperson for a radical Reformation of the high court. Then the public needs a hardcore refresher course on the Constitution and how our Government is supposed to work, and then, maybe, we won’t be completely screwed any longer.

Sorry for the longwinded post, but this is one I’ve seen coming for a very long time. We’re just scratching the surface on the kind of damage this court can and will do.

Obama is not a convert to Christianity. It’s all he has ever been. In order for him to be a convert, he needed to be something else before he became a Christian. He was never a Muslim. I don’t know about everyone else, I am not buying that JPV was being sarcastic nor am I buying that he is really a progressive.

Talk about a catch 22. Nice punt Supremes. Want to bet the vote was 5-4. To anyone out there even considering voting Republican, think about the Supreme court. We’re stuck with these right wing ideologues for a very long time. We don’t need any more.

Brilliant logic – deal with that Catch-22 people!!!!!!!!!

They’re creepy and they’re kooky,
Mysterious and spooky,
They’re all together ooky,
The [Supreme Court Justices].

- Tom

* phrase courtesy of Naomi Wolf, from her MUST READ by all world citizens, The End of America– Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot

Nearly finished it. The contents of this book should stun EVERY American, no matter what party affiliation, who believes in the tenants of American Democracy as laid out in our Constitution, especially the Bill of Rights.

This rejection to even hear the case is setting the course for a closed society. That is how fascism begins.

The courts and Congress affirmatively conceal and protect lawbreaking

That day will come, Miss Molly. Just like 40 years ago, the ChiComs were the scary people that the Right feared. I can remember the “we have to fight them there or we’ll be fighting them here” refrain from way back then to justify our continued immoral war in VietNam. Once we left, the world didn’t end and now they are the Right’s favorite business partners.

The biggest fear that these trolls and the 28%er’s have is that this Bush GWOT will be found out to be as morally bankrupt fraud that we know it is. That will happen when a new Democratic President, backed by a clear Democratic majority, starts looking into how Republicans used the fear of brown-skinned people to drain our Treasury of $1 Trillion dollars.

Seriously, does anyone really fear some radical terrorists more than say, a Katrina sized hurricane or earthquake that can kill thousands and destroy billions of dollars in a matter of minutes?

Wonder if he’s ambidexterous or monogamous?

Does the right hand know what the left does?

Comment by whatevah — February 19, 2008 @ 11:49 am

Never underestimate the idiocy of the American people.

Comment by Shayne — February 19, 2008 @ 12:00 pm

Not “worthless”. I think JPV is perfect as a bad example, the negative to demonstrate the positive.

God, what a freak!