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thatcrazycajunA HuffingtonPost.com blogger notes here that Time's cover story this week, "Does the Supreme Court Still Matter?" by David von Drehle, could not have come at a worse time, from the perspective of Democrats and liberal groups trying to get voters and activists to have a sense of urgency about who gets to nominate justices the next couple of Presidential terms. No less than the legal director of People for the American Way, the Norman Lear-founded liberal watchdog group, felt compelled to respond to the article on the PFAW website.
Even as we speak, the Republican presidential nomination aspirants are converging on a religious-wingnut confab to convince the Jim Dobsons, Gary Bauers and Paul Weyrichs of the political world that, should they gain the White House, they will keep on sending more Thomases, Alitos, Scalias and Robertses to the benches of not only the Supreme Court, but lower federal courts as well. This is an absolute necessity for the GOP, particularly given the recent threats by Dobson and his fellow morals-wing leaders to bolt the party and run a candidate of their own unless the 2008 nominee is one to their liking—a standard to which none of the current crop, least of all notorious Noo Yawkah Rudy "Mr. 9/11" Giuliani, presently the front-runner, conforms. With all the scandals surrounding GOP Senators and Reps, and the continuing unpopularity of their President's mule-headed refusal to allow an end to our military misadventure in Iraq, the GOP mandarins know that any hope they still have of keeping hold of the highest office in the land depends utterly on placating their restless base.
NPR has also pointed out here, here and here just how dire a set of straits the GOP now finds itself in with regard to next year's Presidential and Congressional races...and how ironic is the reversal of the usual situation, with Democrats mostly united and organized and able to sit back and watch the other party's fractious self-destruction, rather than the other way around. Don't you just love watching right-wingers eat their own? [evil grin]
Even as we speak, the Republican presidential nomination aspirants are converging on a religious-wingnut confab to convince the Jim Dobsons, Gary Bauers and Paul Weyrichs of the political world that, should they gain the White House, they will keep on sending more Thomases, Alitos, Scalias and Robertses to the benches of not only the Supreme Court, but lower federal courts as well. This is an absolute necessity for the GOP, particularly given the recent threats by Dobson and his fellow morals-wing leaders to bolt the party and run a candidate of their own unless the 2008 nominee is one to their liking—a standard to which none of the current crop, least of all notorious Noo Yawkah Rudy "Mr. 9/11" Giuliani, presently the front-runner, conforms. With all the scandals surrounding GOP Senators and Reps, and the continuing unpopularity of their President's mule-headed refusal to allow an end to our military misadventure in Iraq, the GOP mandarins know that any hope they still have of keeping hold of the highest office in the land depends utterly on placating their restless base.
NPR has also pointed out here, here and here just how dire a set of straits the GOP now finds itself in with regard to next year's Presidential and Congressional races...and how ironic is the reversal of the usual situation, with Democrats mostly united and organized and able to sit back and watch the other party's fractious self-destruction, rather than the other way around. Don't you just love watching right-wingers eat their own? [evil grin]
