I just can’t wrap my mind around right wing dogma, especially the contradictory, hypocritical stuff. Like the fact that “pro-life” people always seem to be pro-death penalty. It’s a strange contradiction, the way they are bent on protecting a person before he is born, but then once he’s been delivered they don’t give a damn.
I see this very phenomenon today in an article about Bill Frist’s speech at a church rally. He was denouncing the Democratic filibusters against Bush’s judicial nominees, defending the Republican assault on checks and balances.
He told conservatives that judges deserve “respect, not retaliation,” no matter how they rule.
What a huge, smelly load of crap. It was just weeks ago that the Republicans were calling for retaliation against judges — some of them their own appointees — for ruling that Terri Schiavo should be allowed to die.
I’m always amazed at how today’s Republicans have managed the difficult art of reconciling their contradictory positions on just about everything.
Even funnier is this:
Charles W. Colson, head of Prison Fellowship Ministries, also appeared by videotape. He said Senate Democrats are trying to use the filibuster “to seize what they lost at the ballot box and to prevent the appointment of judges, holding the judiciary hostage.” Their actions, he said, “are destroying the balance of power, which was a vital Christian contribution to the founding of our nation.”
To Republicans, the “balance of power” means “100% of power in ultra-right wing hands.” Since they came into power, they’ve been systematically dismantling the balance of powers that was so carefully designed by the founders, giving unprecedented powers to the Executive and emasculating the Judiciary.
James Dobson, that slimy creep, trotted out his ignorance of how the checks and balances work with this brilliant contribution:
James Dobson, chairman of Focus on the Family, spoke from the church’s pulpit and criticized the Supreme Court, seven of whose nine members were named by Republican presidents. The court’s majority, Dobson said, “are unelected and unaccountable and arrogant and imperious and determined to redesign the culture according to their own biases and values, and they’re out of control.”
Unelected judges? Who knew? Of course, the Republicans are trying to push through a whole slew of “unelected” judges right now. “Ah, but that’s different,” they’d say.
