No More Mr. Nice Guy!

Supreme arrogance

With Sandra Day O'Connor stepping down from the SCROTUS (Supreme Court - Republican - of the United States), Junior gets his first chance to appoint a Supreme. Will he learn something from the recent Senate battles over his unacceptably extremist nominations? Will he follow the example of Bill Clinton, who consulted with Orrin Hatch before nominating Ruth Bader Ginsberg? Will he nominate someone with at least some support from the other side of the aisle? All together now: HAHAHAHAHAHA!

No, of course not. Junior has an endless supply of lunatic-right knuckle-dragging neanderthals on tap, and he takes his marching orders from James Dobson and the other mouth-foaming hatemongers of the "Moronic Majority". Also, he and many others on the extreme right, including Bill Frist, were incensed over the agreement by the gang of 14 in the Senate which averted a nuclear war over the filibuster, and they are just itching to push the button and trigger another confrontation.

One name that keeps floating to the top of the list of possible candidates is - hold on to your socks - Alberto "Torquemada" Gonzales. You know, the guy who thinks the Geneva Convention is "quaint and obsolete". Yeah, he would be a real jewel in the crown! As if it's not bad enough that your house can be seized and given to Walmart (while you're in agonizing pain for lack of medical marijuana), now you'll be drawn and quartered over flaming coals if you protest.

The lunatic religious right objects to Gonzales because he's not droolingly insane enough for their liking, but from Karl Rove's point of view, he's perfect. By nominating him, the thugocracy can once again play the race card, and smear Democrats as anti-Hispanic racists if they oppose him. And a large number of craven, spineless dems will roll over and support Gonzales for that very reason.

It's encouraging to note that some progressives are finally wising up to this tactic and responding in the obvious way: proposing an alternative candidate who is also Hispanic, but who seems to be much closer to mainstream values. Someone both Republicans and Democrats can support. Someone who seems eminently worthy of a nomination.

Alas, it'll never happen. Junior will never accept a candidate suggested by anyone else; he sees these positions as the spoils of war for his cronies, to be dispensed by him with no input from any other groups or individuals. King George the Turd doles out titles and estates to his buddies, and how dare any commoner vote no, let alone utter the word "filibuster"!

The most that can be accomplished with Prado is to use him to inoculate Senate dems from the charge that they are racist. It's a pity to have to use anyone as a pawn in this manner, especially since the racism charge is so hypocritical and dishonest, coming as it does from the most ignorant, backward and bigoted party in modern history.

Whoever Junior nominates, it will certainly lead to an extreme-right court that rolls back decades of social progress, and continues to inflict his reckless agenda on the country long after he has hauled his bony ass back to Crawford. The repugs are truly "courting disaster"...