How a Corporatist Supreme Court Cabal Joined Forces...

[Brewman_Jax]

With Right-Wing and Kochs to Quietly Sell Out Our Democracy

http://www.alternet.org/story/151889/how...democracy/

From the article:

Quote:Bill Watterson is Mark Twain--with a drawing pen. He is a master cartoonist, but also a sharp-witted observer of the absurd, with an impish sense of humor. From 1985-1995, Watterson penned "Calvin and Hobbes," the truly marvelous comic strip that featured six-year-old Calvin and his stuffed tiger Hobbes. In Calvin's inventive and iconoclastic mind, Hobbes was a genuine tiger (and his best friend) and they shared boundless adventures that challenged conventional thinking and defied authority, often crashing right through the prescribed social order of the 'real' world.

A recurring theme in the strip was a two-player baseball competition in which both the kid and the tiger simply made up the rules as they went. In one strip, Calvin has hit the ball thrown by Hobbes, and he's scampering toward home plate:

Calvin: Ha Ha! A home run!

Hobbes: You didn't touch all the bases!

Calvin: I did, too.

Hobbes: No, you didn't. You didn't touch seventh base.

Calvin: Yes, I did! I touched the water barrel right after the front porch.

Hobbes: That's not seventh base. That's twelfth base!

Calvin: I thought the garage door was twelfth.

Hobbes: The garage door is twenty-third base. You touched them all out of order, and you didn't touch the secret base.

Calvin: The secret base?? What's the secret base?!

Hobbes: I can't tell you. It's a secret.

That exchange between a six-year-old and a stuffed tiger pretty well sums up the nonsensical political gamesmanship being played out today by the five-man lineup of corporatists on the Supreme Court: Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Samuel Alito, Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, and Clarence Thomas. They are on an unrestrained ideological tear, making up their own rules to score big points for corporate power. Reasoning? Try twenty-third base! Precedent? Throw it out! History? Rewrite it! The Constitution? Slide by it! Judicial restraint? Only for liberals! Logic? That's a secret! The rule of law? The law is us!

Only, this isn't a game. Barely six years into Roberts' tenure, he and his narrow majority have thoroughly politicized the Court. The one branch of our national government that was intentionally designed by the Founders to set the rule of law above politics has been turned into another political front group to advance corporate rule. The Constitution granted life tenure to the justices specifically so they could feel free to stand up to wealthy wrongdoers--particularly those avaricious business schemers who wanted to endanger the people's rule by establishing, as Jefferson put it, "the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations."


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[Cha]

Quote:Only, this isn't a game. Barely six years into Roberts' tenure, he and his narrow majority have thoroughly politicized the Court. The one branch of our national government that was intentionally designed by the Founders to set the rule of law above politics has been turned into another political front group to advance corporate rule. The Constitution granted life tenure to the justices specifically so they could feel free to stand up to wealthy wrongdoers--particularly those avaricious business schemers who wanted to endanger the people's rule by establishing, as Jefferson put it, "the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations."

Yeah, they have and where's the Freakin' OUTRAGE?!

[nofurylike]

that is exactly spot on, Brewman_Jax!!!

thank you for posting that!

[Ikonoklast]

The current SC is the most radical court this country has ever endured.

They are obliterating personal liberties and expanding the rights of corporations over those of the individual.

I hope I live long enough to see their rulings overturned by sane judges,

[Brewman_Jax]

Notice that the repubs, teabaggers, and rabid RW don't have a problem with "activist judges", as long as they favor RW and repub causes--and this has been the most activist Supreme Court in recent memory.

[There Is No Spoon]

I didn't even want to open this thread since the current SC makes me ill - I can't bear to think how political it's become and that there's not a damned thing we can do about it. Thomas impeached? Hah! That only happens in 1rst world countries.

[Ikonoklast]

(08-07-2011 11:01 PM)There Is No Spoon Wrote:  I didn't even want to open this thread since the current SC makes me ill - I can't bear to think how political it's become and that there's not a damned thing we can do about it. Thomas impeached? Hah! That only happens in 1rst world countries.

We have the best court that money can buy.

Democrats must now be willing to filibuster all SC nominees offered up by any future Republican president until they get one that is acceptable.

No more playing nice...the other side plays scorched earth on everything, Dems need to do the same.

Getting Mr. Obama re-elected because of the potential to appoint SC justices is of almost paramount importance.