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….
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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….
Waiting on the Supreme Court…
Well…it’s been an okay day so far with a really nice lunch with T and getting soaked just walking to the car…but, it was supposed to be a day when we were to see at least one of the major supreme court decisions but they never came….so, I’ll be waiting on the court for a couple more days until Thursday when one of the big ones will be announced…there was one case that came out today that should have the police being, much more careful with the people they detain…when the court said that detainees have the same constitutional rights as anyone else and that if the prisoners are abused in any way, the police are liable to be sued for their actions…this one came about when the cops detained a man and took him to jail, then beat and tasered him for no reason….I just hope this extends to the cops facing criminal charges….it would be about time…
The supreme court isn’t one….
Well…I have had this little tidbit rattling around in my head for a little while yet and thought I’d take a stab at it before it rattles out one of my ears…with all of the bad, bad decisions that this court has made, it is no longer a court…but it is the judicial arm of the repub party whose only goal is to further the aims of the right in this country. Starting with Bush v. Gore, where the case should have been sent back to the House where all election disputes are supposed to be resolved according to the constitution….this court took the case with the ruling that said this was a one time thing and could never be a precedent to be cited in any other case (something that had never happened in the history of the country) this court has been radically doing the right’s bidding. Then we have Citizen’s United that made corporations people in complete disregard with a hundred years of precedent and guaranteed the seven figure speaking fees for the justices when they retired…while ruining our political process and allowing the billionaires on the right to buy elections ( as they just did in 2014). Then there is Hobby Lobby, a decision that allowed employers the right to impose their religious beliefs on their employees and which gave the right one of the items that was high on their wish list….to impose Christianity on everyone in this country. In just these three instances, we can see that this supreme court is no longer the impartial arbiter of law they are supposed to be, but the judicial arm of the right using it’s power to advance the right’s aims to the detriment of the country…they need to go…geez…
The real death panel….
Well…during the repub fight against the ACA, one of their go to phrases was the law included “death panels” which would condemn people to death by restricting what type of care people would get under the law…ignoring the fact that that most elderly folks are covered under Medicare and it would have nothing to do with them….but, with a new study that came out today, the real death panel is going to be the supreme court if they rule against subsidies for people who buy their insurance through the federal exchanges…and condemn an extra 10,000 people to death per year since they won’t be able to afford unsubsidized insurance. This total can then be added to the estimated 17,000 people a year that die since the Medicaid expansion was made optional by the court and the governors of repub states decided not to expand the program. So, the only thing you need to remember is there truly is a death panel here in the US, and it is called the supreme court…geez…
Immigration…..again…
Well…with all the howls from the right that any movement by Obama on immigration will be “the biggest abuse of power in the history of the world” and “an impeachable offense” I am laughing and laughing again at how stupid these folks are…or they can’t read or have really stupid staffs…if they didn’t, they would realize that two years ago the supreme court pre-approved many of the things that Obama plans to do…and that same ruling gave the executive branch wide leeway to do what they see fit on immigration….so, again, it doesn’t really matter what Obama does, if he breathes, “impeachment!” If he talks “Impeachment!” there is just no credibility that the right has these days since they refuse to do anything to deal with the problems with immigration…Obama has given the repubs two years to try to fix this mess and they have just sat there and bloviated without doing anything…so, it’s on their heads…I really do hope they sue Obama or impeach him over the immigration changes he will announce tomorrow…and then I will laugh when they get laughed out of court with the court citing the Arizona supreme court decision…what a bunch of maroons….geez…
Need to start thinking about catching up…
Well…it’s only halfway through the month and I’m already thinking about being behind so I thought I’d do one more right now and then the world cup one later….I am still stewing about the Hobby Lobby decision that gives employers the right to control their workers when not on the job…and it is so against the first amendment that I think the 5 catholics on the court that made the decision should be impeached….but, not only for this case, there is also the citizens united case that gave corporations free speech rights to spend as much they want to buy elections, and that overturned a hundred years of precedents…and, these are not aberrations, they are the ideology that these guys are pushing…that the rich and corporations are just a little more equal than the rest of us…just like the pigs in “Animal Farm”…..a cautionary tale that everyone should have read in high school…and that specifically had the point that inequality destroys societies…but these guys just don’t care, they have a vision of the rich running and ruining everyone’s lives and they are doing their best to make sure that happens…geez…