Thursday, October 06, 2005
This has been an amusing political week. Most weeks are not. Harriet Miers is a "stealth" candidate for the Supreme Court. I think she'd be a disaster, another Clarence Thomas, a third rate legal reactionary. But John Roberts was a "stealth" appointee also. If this nation is ready for a real conservative revolution, if the American People have seen the Light & truly believe, as the Christian right has been insisting for over a decade now, then why doesn't Bush just reach for an obvious, upfront born again, King James Version, anti-abortion, anti-gay rights, anti-privacy, anti-evolution, anti-minimum wage, anti-organized labor jurist who's more than glad to admit it?
He can't, that's why. The G.O.P circus tent would collapse & all the freaks, geeks, bearded ladies, tattooed midgets, hoochie coochies, snake handlers, shills, barkers, fortunetellers, fake unicorns would go dancing up Pennsylvania Avenue. With the real sideshow Republicans like Doug Forrester, Tom Kean, Olympia Snowe, Arlen Specter, Mike Bloomberg, Lincoln Chafee & Arnie Der Republicanator standing around going, "Duh, we didn't know, we swear we didn't know it was that loony."
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
He can't, that's why. The G.O.P circus tent would collapse & all the freaks, geeks, bearded ladies, tattooed midgets, hoochie coochies, snake handlers, shills, barkers, fortunetellers, fake unicorns would go dancing up Pennsylvania Avenue. With the real sideshow Republicans like Doug Forrester, Tom Kean, Olympia Snowe, Arlen Specter, Mike Bloomberg, Lincoln Chafee & Arnie Der Republicanator standing around going, "Duh, we didn't know, we swear we didn't know it was that loony."
