Well…with all of the crap that the repubs are spewing on the nomination to the supreme court that Obama has every right to do…and that they should take up…we now have the idiot Alito injecting politics into the process by sending a letter to McConnell saying that he agrees with their obstructionism…something that has NEVER happened in the history of the court but is not new for this liar. During his hearing for his approval…Alito lied through his teeth when he said that he would be a neutral arbiter of the law when his actions on the court have been anything but; he has been one of the most ideology driven justices there has ever been on the court…always ruling for business and against women whenever those cases come up…toeing the extreme right wing line that he promised he wouldn’t…just another lie. So now, with this last outrage, whenever this ass speaks, you know it is not as a neutral arbiter of the law as written…but the worst kind of activist justice that is hell bent on making this country worse for you and me…geez…
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Let the voters decide? They already did…
Well….over the past two elections, after Obama was elected, the repubs have led an unprecedented campaign to nullify the results of those two elections by their obstructionism; choosing to not do their constitutional duty on the debt, the budget, and especially in approving judges that have been presented by Obama. Their dis-ingeniousness continues with their new meme they are pushing in regard to the right that Obama has to appoint a supreme court justice: that the selection should wait until the voters decide in the 2016 presidential election. Now, if these liars would just look back to he 2012 election, one of the main themes was that if Obama was elected, he would appoint judges to the court that would be too liberal, that would grant equal rights to gay people…etc, etc…..and ole Mitt went on and on about the fact that he would appoint judges like the radical activist right wingers on the court…and when people were surveyed, almost 60% said that the supreme court was very important to their voting decision. So, the people have already voted and put Obama in for a second term to carry out his required duties of appointing judges to supreme court vacancies…and no matter what the repubs say, that is the truth….geez…
This is what Obama should do…
Well…with all of the repubs in the senate promising obstruction to any nominee that Obama puts up for the supreme court, I think Obama needs to take those threats seriously and appoint a true progressive while the senate is in recess. This would not only really piss off the repubs but would get the court to a 5-4 liberal majority for the rest of his term…and, with the court docket having so many cases that could hurt women, unions, and really screw up this country if there was a conservative majority, Obama needs to do this right now. Then, when we win the presidency and the senate later in the year, we have the chance of making the progressive majority permanent…at least for a while anyway….get it done Obama….
Hypocrites…
Well…as you have seen here before, one of the joys of my life is calling out the hypocrites on the right I guess whenever they open their mouths…now, they are at it again with the death of Antonin Scalia yesterday…now, you have heard me go on about Scalia and his wrongheadedness on almost every opinion he ever wrote, and all you have to do is read his Bush v. Gore, Hobby Lobby, and Citizens United opinions to see what I mean…he had a penchant for just making stuff up to meet his biases…and his ethical challenges were well known with his frequent trips to the Koch brothers secret meetings where at least the appearance of impropriety oozed out of him. But now that he has died, the repubs hypocrisy is on full display…on a daily basis, these idiots rail and rail about the constitution and that Obama is tearing it up….as soon as the death was announced, the repubs new meme is that, since Obama is in the last year of his term, we should wait to name a new justice until the next president is elected…and they are justifying that by constitution, constitution…something something….well…there is nothing in the constitution that says a president can’t appoint someone in his last term…not anywhere…and, to leave a vacancy on the court for a year has never been done…even saint Ronnie of Reagan appointed one in his last year….I really do hope that the repubs will carry through on their threats to not approve any nominee….and then, when we win the election and take back the senate, we can get a real progressive on the court that will start to repeal all of the wrongheaded crap that the conservatives have foisted on this country….geez…
Okay…this one is filler…
Well….yeah, the title says it all…just don’t have a topic for today so this one is just going to be filler…there was one thing about ole Ted Cruz….he has vowed that he will appoint “conservative” judges to the supreme court who will then outlaw gay marriage…yeah, Ted…you are never going to be elected so that’s not going to be a problem…and the 14th amendment doesn’t change just because you want it to….another time where the repubs are shown to be the huge hypocrites they are….real law and order until they don’t get what they want and then the court ruling is “unlawful”….what the hell law school do you go to? I’m sure they taught you what the constitution means…and yet you go on and on how illegitimate it is….what a poor excuse for a human being this guy is…hmmmm…might have to change the title…nope…I think I’ll just leave it…I did make the goal for the month so I guess that’s something….
Long day…lots of crazy…
Well…it has been a long day that has been filled with lots of crazy on the right…leading the way was ole Ted Cruz who just ratcheted it up to eleven over the weekend with his comment on marriage equality…where the hell do they find these guys? Ole Ted just went off on the supreme court, saying that he has an idea to “fix” it by making the justices run for some kind of an election every eight years…something like a vote of no confidence…who knows what the hell this guy means about anything. Then he goes on to say that when elected president (yeah, that one made me laugh, too) he will push for a constitutional amendment ensuring that a group of his fellow citizens have their rights taken away from them…but, I don’t think he understands the process that takes….2/3rds of each house of congress would have to vote for it…and then 37 states would have to ratify it through their legislatures…listen to me…never, ever going to happen, but the rubes that he is playing to will eat this crap up and think it’s the best idea ever. I just shake my head….
Typical repubs…
Well…having had the weekend to digest the supreme court’s decisions of the past week and to read the dissents, all I can say is that the losers are just typical repubs…throwing a fit and attacking their peers when they don’t get their way…just to read Thomas, Alito, and Scalia in their dissents, they are nothing but personal attacks and intentional misreading or ignoring the law…what don’t they understand about the 14th amendment? Equal protection under the law…very simple for someone who hasn’t studied the law to understand and apply….in the gay marriage case, how can you not see that there was a group of US citizens that were being denied the rights that everyone else has? But, no, not for the haters on the court who tried to twist the law to their own warped view of what should be..and centering not on what the law says but on what their religions say or what tradition says…neither of which has any place in reading the law and interpreting it. Now, the right is going frickin crazy about their fellow citizens finally have equal rights and have threatened everything under the sun to go against the law from secession to trying to put unconstitutional roadblocks in the way in the state legislatures…typical repubs…crybaby sore losers…
Another good decision…
Well…it is another great day and another great decision by the supreme court when, just a few minutes ago, the court made gay marriage legal across the country….striking down one of the most egregious bits of discrimination that is still left in the country. One of the best things about this decision is that was on a broad reading of the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment which will then lead to ending discrimination in hiring and firing and every other mode of discrimination that the idiots out there have dreamed up….I applaud the supreme court for dong what is right…it had to go this way…
Funny, funny, funny…
Well…with the heads exploding on the right with the Obamacare decision today, I have heard a bunch of conspiracy theories sprout on the right about how it could possibly happen this way…and one of the funniest is the one that says the only reason the decision went that way was that Obama was blackmailing the repubs and John
Roberts…that they had something on them that would ruin their lives if it was revealed….now, I wonder if any of the idiots pushing this one understand the implications of what they are saying. If you believe this crap, that means that every powerful repub has done something so bad that it would ruin their lives if it was revealed….I wonder what that would be? It is funny that these repubs that the right reveres are common criminals in their eyes but that is okay because they are repub criminals…man, this stuff just makes me laugh…
The supreme court got one right…
Well…in case you haven’t heard, the supreme court ruled in favor of Obamacare this morning, allowing the premium subsidies to continue on both the federal and state exchanges. I think they finally got one right in this case…it was clear from the start that was what the law meant…and everyone who worked on it said it did…and the decision going 6-3 for wasn’t even close…and it shouldn’t have been given that the court is supposed to follow precedent and that is how they have read this stuff for more than a hundred years. I found the reaction of Scalia to be more of the same old crap that he spews when he doesn’t get his way and it was funny that Roberts trolled him a little on his dissent…so now, we are waiting for the equality case that could come down tomorrow or Monday…that one shouldn’t be close, either….but you never know with this court….