MaxedOutMama
Sunday, June 26, 2005
Happy Monday!
In case you aren't up for all the joy and sparkly lights (the ones on the cop car that stopped you when you were speeding in order to get to work on time), here's a few quickies to go with your dour mood.
1) Democratic Underground experiences heartbreak upon learning that Ronald Reagan was voted "Greatest American" on the Discovery Channel. They vow a boycott. Warning, obscenities. Winning quote:
3) And this DU thread just blew my mind. It's indescribable. The title is "The Conservative Supreme Court just handed us a 2008 political win". The people on DU are convinced that somehow the Republicans were behind the Kelo V New London decision. A couple of people keep arguing the facts - that it was the "liberal" judges who voted for it:
1) Democratic Underground experiences heartbreak upon learning that Ronald Reagan was voted "Greatest American" on the Discovery Channel. They vow a boycott. Warning, obscenities. Winning quote:
But when I saw he was the #1 vote in a clearly unscientific polling of America...with no weighted inputs from historians or experts...it just galls me. You are either purposefully or gullibly making yourselves the mouthpiece of the new hardline propagandist Republicans.Ah ha! Now I understand why they keep insisting that Bush didn't win the 2004 election - it was unscientific and the votes weren't weighted properly. This one person-one vote stuff produces vortexes in the space-time fabric:
clearly a bunch of morons are able to vote and that has been what created the evil vortex we are now living through.2) It's not like the Kelo V New London is going to cause any more takings, or that's what the experts claim. On the other hand, stories like this keep popping up:
With Thursday's Supreme Court decision, Freeport officials instructed attorneys to begin preparing legal documents to seize three pieces of waterfront property along the Old Brazos River from two seafood companies for construction of an $8 million private boat marina.and:
The tracts of land would be used for a planned 800- to 900-slip marina to be built by Freeport Marina, a group that that includes Dallas developer Hiram Walker Royall. He would buy the property from the city and receive a $6 million loan from the city to develop the project.Get that? The city is going to let him buy the land AND a $6 million dollar loan. And mind you, two companies are being eliminated for this "economic development" project, which certainly will entail a loss of jobs.
3) And this DU thread just blew my mind. It's indescribable. The title is "The Conservative Supreme Court just handed us a 2008 political win". The people on DU are convinced that somehow the Republicans were behind the Kelo V New London decision. A couple of people keep arguing the facts - that it was the "liberal" judges who voted for it:
It doesn't matter who appointed who...the right wing feels that the only good judges are ones like Scalia and Thomas. They are using this to argue that we need more judges like Scalia and Thomas.This is a sample of the responses to the original post (which blamed the whole thing on Republicans). It was a Rovian plot:
Any attempt by the Dems to capitalize on this will backfire because we are siding with Scalia and Thomas on this issue. If we were to use this issue as evidence that we need to remake the SC we are saying that we need to remake it in the form of Scalia and Thomas.
This is a no-win for us.
That is really how I feel - this was a tool to get the 'liberal activist judges' to look bad with a nice kick back to developers and corporations on the side. People just don't pay enough attention to smell the obvious skunk when normally pro-business justices voted against it. They had the votes they needed, so they could get the "See? We need more like Scalia and Thomas" line out there. Masterful. Brilliant. Evil.It was all Scalia's fault (yes, I know he dissented - it is they who can't fathom it):
Scalia Showed His Pro-Business Colors Again The decision is an outrage and the Democrats definitely can get some mileage out of it. While the vote never should have been so close (true Republicans oppose the decision, too), Scalia showed his pro-business colors once again by granting even more power to corporations who are treated as citizens more and more under the law.It is a Republican way to act, therefore the Republicans did it:
Do you think this decision is a viable Democratic issue for 2008? I think it is, and I think we must start right away saying why this decision is more of the Republican way of doing things, i.e., robbing the poor and middle class to make the rich richer.4) Sometimes environmentalists seem to be confused about the value of human life versus that of say, alligators, but you can always count on a dog's certainty. Read about True Blue, courtesy Florida Cracker.
When my Republican brother called to complain of the "liberals" on the court, my response was, this was more of a fascist approach. If you don't like the law, change the law to make illegal concepts perfectly legal. The liberal approach is to take a little more from the well to do and give to the less fortunate. This opinion in no way reflects that concept, quite the opposite.
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I agree with beth. Sheesh...it's mind boggling. I'm at a loss for words..and that doesn't happen often.
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