Oh, where to begin on the long-awaited nominations to the Federal Circuit Courts of Appeal that have been wasting the Senate's time for about 6 weeks. There's so much to say, and so little restraint available. After a protracted battle of chest-beating in which the President and Republican Congressional majorities made it perfectly clear that they were willing to shit on the Constitution and then set it on fire in order to win approval 9 psychos who base most of their legal opinions on the combined writings of Moses and Henry Clay Frick, the path for their nominations was cleared today.
To better put in focus exactly how many of your rights the Republican party is willing to disregard in its myopic quest for camera time with James Dobson (p.s. – God wants you to send more checks! Quick! Pretend I'm a legitimate clergyman and not a dime-store televangelist who can't keep his hands out of your pockets!) let's take a look at the record of Alabama Attorney General William Pryor, now better known as Federal Judge One-Step-Away-from-the-Supreme-Court William Pryor.
Why Pryor? Well, simply because he's more heinous, and he proves my point better.
The other contested nominees may be corporate whores, and they're certainly all mindless Bible-thumping drones. But Pryor seems to actually be anti-humanity. I've never seen an elected official come out and make statements like "My job isn't to come here and help children" upon taking office, but Pryor did. He is part of the bizarre, soulless breed of conservative who takes his only joy from victories based in abstract principles while simultaneously and completely disregarding the tangible impact.
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It doesn't matter if unregulated water supplies could poison us – the important thing is rolling back federal authority (which, to get you up to speed, is the antichrist in any and every situation). See, states (remember, he's from Alabama) and the local Pigsknuckle County Board are the organizations that should hold all regulatory power. Yes, it's William Pryor's wet dream to return America to the days before that pesky 14th Amendment came along – the days when the amount of consumer, environmental, and civil liberty protection an individual received was entirely a function of his zip code.
Among his other hits:
to the behemoth of federal power." Yes, truly is federalism more important than spousal abuse. Boy, I'd hate to be an abused woman in Alabama. But then again, all them bitches had it comin', right?
How on Earth is someone like this identified as someone who can serve the highest courts in the land effectively? God only knows. Wait. I know.
Pryor explicitly opposes abortion in cases of rape and incest (which usually coincide in Alabama and are celebrated as legal marriage). He supports a law making the state the legal guardian of fetuses from the time of conception until birth – yup, he's really on the lookout against government power. And he told the Federalist Society (feel free to read up on those whackos to get a good laugh and calm down) on 10/16/97 that "At the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe and of the mystery of human life.”
Sounds like a pro-choice argument to me, but I believe he misspoke. What he meant to say was that he holds that right, and the rest of us should be appropriately supplicant.
Congratulations on your victory, pro-life America! I hope it was worth it. Which it most assuredly won't be if you're female, disabled, concerned about your privacy, or a sexually-abused foster child.
J. Dryden says:
Worth reading–if you haven't quite thrown up EVERYTHING in your stomach and are in the mood for a really THOROUGH purge–is Molly Ivin's chapter in BUSHWHACKED on Priscilla Owen, and equally loony nominee–sorry, appointee, since she just got confirmed–who promises to protect the helpless corporations of the world from the thieving widows, orphans, and cripples who want to collect money awarded to them by stupid, probably lesbian-packed juries. Also, thanks to her, teenage girls who get raped by Daddy and want to abort the resulting embryo must first get permission from…well, Daddy, actually. Shouldn't Lee Greenwood be singing a song about these fine judicial heroes? Ah well, I'm sure Tom Delay was heard to murmur: "At last, a couple of judges whose murder we don't have to tacitly endorse…"
kat says:
and i thought all would be ok when i left mississippi at the age of 17. oh, no. they've followed me into the heart of blue country and just won't leave me alone.
as for ms. ivans, i am forever amused by her story of mooning the kkk. giggle-fest.
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