Needlenose

Judicial activism in liberal courts result in equal rights for Americans.  Reactionary judicial activism consists of increasing the rights of corporations over Americans, such as keeping individual campaign contributions in check while allowing unlimited corporate donations.  Or continuously letting Big Coal destroy mountains and fresh water streams and to hell with the locals.

*Update 8/6/10* Great analysis of 2 recent rulings in favor of gay marriage along with encouraging prognostication of how SCOTUS might rule.

Forget privatizing Social Security with individual retirement accounts – that idea is so 2003.   John “Orange Man” Boehner rolls out the newest GOP plan to ‘fix’ Social Security – everybody will just have to work until they die.  What’s next, Orange Man – making up for lost tax revenues by bringing in ‘younger’ workers – like maybe child labor?  With loonies like “Ayn” Rand Paul waiting in the wings for the upcoming election I wouldn’t be too surprised to see that concept mooted.  And with the current reactionary makeup of the SCOTUS, it’s not inconceivable that they might take a strict ‘Originalist’ interpretation of the Federal Government’s ability to restrict labor practices (they’ve ruled in favor of child labor before).

To personalize this just a bit, my mom is still working in her late 70s, and my dad was working up until his first cancer treatments – I imagine a lot of people could say that Boehner’s fix is already the Status Quo.

Well it’s official now.  As predicted, the SCOTUS has thrown out all gun control legislation.  I wonder how many Columbines we need to go through before the pendulum begins to swing in the other direction?  On a more humorous note, this would be a great time to get arrested for possessing a hand-grenade  or an RPG, in order to take that case before the SCOTUS.  The Constitution just says ‘arms,’ and I’m sure they never envisioned the weapons of 2010.

*Update 6/29/10* And don’t expect the SCOTUS to reverse their decision anytime soon – Obama’s nominee is Gun-Nuttier than the man she is replacing.

Better not forget the extra foam, barrista, this gun has a hair-trigger!

Regardless of how lame the Obama Administration has been, the recent and upcoming SCOTUS rulings on gun control should be a wake-up call about how wrong the Naderites were about how there is ”no difference between the Democrats and Republicans.’  Shrubya had 8 years to replace retiring liberal and moderate justices with reactionary activists.  The result?  Sometime this summer you are going to wake up one morning in a country where all gun control laws have been abolished.

You can get a preview of things to come by watching the gun nuts parade around with their weapons in our restaurants and national parks.  I bet it won’t be long before we have some dramatic shootout, where one of these unhinged, delusional vigilantes tries to stop an armed robbery and blows away some poor coffee patron.  Or maybe a couple of these loons will shoot at each other, thinking they are stopping a robber!  Hard to guess, but I’m sure it will happen soon, and sure it will be bloody.

Given the current extremists in the court, my guess is that we are one lawsuit away from a similar overturn of Roe v. Wade.

So stop your whining, suck it up and work hard to make Obama successful, now and in his next run – because we are just one Scalia or Thomas heart-attack away from an appointment of a real justice and a non-loony majority.

The Bush-appointed SCOTUS majority hastens the end of representative democracy with their catastrophic ruling eliminating Corporate campaign donation limits.  Well we had a good 200-odd year run, give or take a few misAdministrations.

It wasn’t long ago when the Dumbs were the minority in the Senate, and at the time they said theywouldn’t filibuster any vile  Repug legislation or nominee because they were afraid the mean Repug bullies would eliminate cloture rules.

Now that they are in the majority with a Dem President, they seem downright gleeful about joining their former bully oppressors to filibuster – check out the Dumbocrat Jackass du jour, Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska, threatening to filibuster any ‘activist’ (read: Pro Choice) Supreme Court nominee.

Could you imagine how things would have gone over the last 8 years if the Dumbocrats either had some balls, understood party unity or weren’t just fucking Repugs in disguise?

The Dems are fighting back the Repug attempt to disenfrachise voters in swing states.  They won a minor battle to restore some registrations in Michigan and surprisingly of new voters in Ohio - surprisingly because the legal fight went up to the SCOTUS which ruled against the Greasy Old Pigs!  Guess Shrubya’s buddies don’t care for McCain.

Kathryn Kolbert of Crooks & Liars points out it’s pretty close to ‘Mission Accomplished’ for team Shrubya, at least as far as locking up the SCOTUS is concerned.  We truly are just an 88-year old heartbeat and a Palin Preznitcy away from a reactionary court in perpetuity.