TX Firesign Theater

“GET OVER IT!!!”

A pithy comment! The California Prop-22 fefintion of marriage was deemed unconstituional by the Ca-Supreme Court. What could be more constructionist than a State Supreme Court upholding the primacy of a State Constitution?

This was an astounding result since minor mistakes of this nature happen every day. Presuming that the judge made the mistake in good faith and that there was no prejudice to the other party, then there would be no reason to refuse the appeal. The result would be just to both parties, justice would be served and such action would fall within well recognized prior practice of the courts. But then this is a court with the same judges, one of whom opined that actual innocence of a person convicted of a crime would not necessarily require overturning the conviction.

We see a conservative court that will wield a heavy hand against the individual. The conservatives will not wield nearly as much review against the government or corporations.

I’m one very established Clinton supporter that is certainly peeved at the blogosphere comments I’ve seen from Obama supporters (equating Hillary to McCain for example), but the reservations I have about Obama are nowhere near enough to dissuade me from voting for him in November if he becomes the nominee (which seems very likely now).
It won’t be just a party-line vote for me either–Obama has a lot of great personal and political qualities and positions that I have no problem with.

Any professed Clinton supporter that would actually vote for McCain just to spite Obama would be a complete and utter bastard on so many levels. I’m sure there a number like that–status-quo types– but the hell with them.

I hope this comment gives you some extra hope.

They are not the co-branch with Presidents, they are the “third” branch as referred to in the US Constitution and Bill of Rights!

Maybe, they are looking down at us, but Congress should be looking into the unethical practices they seem to be measuring.

Obama: Gonzales v. Carhart — which upheld a ban on partial-birth abortion — was part of “a concerted effort to steadily roll back” access to abortions. And he ridiculed Justice Anthony Kennedy, who wrote that case’s majority opinion. “Justice Kennedy knows many things,” he declared, “but my understanding is that he does not know how to be a doctor.”

Obama: Roberts’ character during his confirmation hearings were largely superficial. “He loves his wife. He’s good to his dog,” … adding that judicial philosophy should be weighted more seriously than such evaluations. Obama: “We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom. The empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor, or African-American, or gay, or disabled, or old. And that’s the criteria by which I’m going to be selecting my judges.”

– Maverick stand on campaign financing — gone
– Maverick stand on tobacco — gone
– Maverick stand on torture — gone
– Maverick stand on Bush tax cuts — gone
– Maverick stand on constitutional marriage amendment — gone
– Maverick stand on drilling in ANWR — gone
– Maverick stand on illegal immigration — fading
– Maverick stand on global warming — never really existed
– Maverick stand on Iraq and Iran — still in place

(The puppetmeisters actually kind of like McCain’s urge to bomb the entire middle east, so that probably won’t change — even though he’s a bigger warmonger than even Bush.)

All I see is a man who once had some principles (although I didn’t always agree with them), and he has surrendered them along with his soul to the real power in the GOP. OF COURSE the judges he appoints to the SCOTUS will be vetted by the far right. Along with everything else he does.