Stacking the Courts - GOP to Religious Extremists: "Get Lost"

[Stinky The Clown]

It just occured to me like a bolt from above ...... the cabal has NO FUCKING INTEREST AT ALL in stacking the courts with religiowackos. While some of their nominees may *be* religiowackos, that isn't their primary currency with the cabal.

What the cabal wants in the courts are corporatists. They want white guys who will allow the skys to get full of smoke. They want women, who may be mothers, but who have taken leave of their humanity, that will reliably vote to allow companies like Ford, GM and United Airlines to dump their retiree pensioners in the drink to save a half point on the balance sheets. The want black guys who have 'seen the light' to vote to allow every child of a family who makes less than $75K a year to go without healthcare. (I'm sure the'd like a few black women to carry their water too, but a female Clarence Thomas has yet to be discovered - although rumors persist of her existence.)

So when we look at the judges they want in place, look not only at their 'social' views. Look even closer to their stances on the issues corporate. That's where the actual fly in the ointment's hiding. The fly we see? Its just a plastic decoy.

[Carolab]

1. Follow the money.

Works every time...

Why should they worry about getting the votes from the wackos? They just rig the elections anyway.

[Gloria]

2. This is Randi Rhodes take as well, esp concerning Owens...

eom

[NorCalDem]

3. I learned awhile ago

that whatever they're screaming about on the news isn't usually the story. I wish the rest of the country could figure that part out as well.

[blogbear]

4. Welcome to DU..I agree but for now am not holding my breath!

[Stinky The Clown]

5. Yup, they win even when they lose

They get some religioextremistcorporatist and they win ... and the fundies win.

The put up some extremist Theocratist who would allow them anything on corporate carp and he loses and they win, too. Frist gets to hand wring, Santorum gets to moralize, and Bush gets what he really wants.

We're a mightily fucked nation of suckers ......

[Texas_Kat]

6. There's been talk around Texas for more than a year

that bush would nominate John Cornyn (D-TX) to the US Supreme Court. Yes, THAT John Cornyn.

Perfect setup to blind side the Dems (except for Cornyn 'losing' it about violence toward the judiciary).

After all the 'worse' choices, Cornyn would have seemed like a moderate.

Too bad :sarcasm: he stuck his foot in his mouth and let it overload his other end. It may have spoiled bush's plan. We can only hope.

[AndyTiedye]

7. The Fundies and the Robber Barons

There are reasons why the robber barons are so cozy with the Fundies,
and it is, unfortunately, more than a matter of just throwing them
a few crumbs so they'll vote Republican on Election Day, much as we
might wish that were so. They would not have allowed them to amass
so much power, and the media would not be helping them so much.

We reassure ourselves with the thought that the captains of industry
would not want to live under a theocracy themselves. In any case, a
theocracy like Afghanistan would not be good for business. Of course,
a theocracy like Afghanistan isn't what they have in mind. More like
Saudi Arabia. They would not live under the theocracy, they
would live above it, like the sheiks.

This form of "Christianity" that they are promoting bears very little
resemblence even to the teachings of Christ as written in the Bible.
It is, in fact, tailor-made to ensure a compliant underclass that will
never hold them to account for anything that they do.

Indeed, they are counting on the Fundies to be their enforcers.

[sandnsea]

8. That is the objection really

Priscilla Owen was in the pocket of Enron & Halliburton. One of them is heavy into mining interests. Another habitually ruled for business in disabled and discrimination suits. The objection by Democrats has been as much because of their corporate leanings as their social conservatism. It's just harder to explain the complexities of all those cases. Easier to say they were extreme on abortion or cross burning or whatever.

[radfringe]

9. GOP-man toon

Protected by the Flag, and armed with a bible belt - GOP-Man fights the never ending battle for total and absolute power...

http://radfringe.tripod.com/

[rman]

10. It's not a coincidence there's big money behind

the reli-fundi movement.

Big money knows that "god is on our side" can get them support from a lot of people.