Re: Terry Schiavo, Politics and what does it take to hit the tipping point.....
MJG
location: Keeping a low profile amidst the crazy
listening to: Iron & Wine; Zero 7; Calexico; Massive Attack; Patricia Barber; Gorillaz
registered: 2002.08.19
Much worse...
http://www.prospect.org/weblog/
MESSAGE UNITY ON THE COURTS. Suddenly it occurs to me that the Republican fight against the courts on Terri Schiavo has been, among many other things, a perfect set-up for the Republicans' next major congressional initiative: packing the courts with President Bush's conservative judicial nominees. Just take a look at how George Bush reacted this afternoon, after a federal appeals court refused to re-insert Schiavo's feeding tube:
"I believe that in a case such as this, the legislative branch, the executive branch, ought to err on the side of life, which we have," the president said. "Now we'll watch the courts make their decisions."
Combine that with the fact that Mark Levin's Men in Black: How the Supreme Court is Destorying America is right now on the best-seller lists, and you have a recipe for a mobilizing a hurt and highly motivated constituency in defense of the president's coming effort to transform the courts so that they more closely hew to the perspective in the White House and Congress.
--Garance Franke-Ruta
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Where once We the People held capitalism’s leash, now we wear the collar.
MJG
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Much worse...
http://www.prospect.org/weblog/
MESSAGE UNITY ON THE COURTS. Suddenly it occurs to me that the Republican fight against the courts on Terri Schiavo has been, among many other things, a perfect set-up for the Republicans' next major congressional initiative: packing the courts with President Bush's conservative judicial nominees. Just take a look at how George Bush reacted this afternoon, after a federal appeals court refused to re-insert Schiavo's feeding tube:
"I believe that in a case such as this, the legislative branch, the executive branch, ought to err on the side of life, which we have," the president said. "Now we'll watch the courts make their decisions."
Combine that with the fact that Mark Levin's Men in Black: How the Supreme Court is Destorying America is right now on the best-seller lists, and you have a recipe for a mobilizing a hurt and highly motivated constituency in defense of the president's coming effort to transform the courts so that they more closely hew to the perspective in the White House and Congress.
--Garance Franke-Ruta
–--
Where once We the People held capitalism’s leash, now we wear the collar.
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