While
America is busy arguing about Terry Schiavo and Michael Jackson, the
Bush team appointed John Bolton to the UN, Paul Wolfowitz to the World
Bank. They've also resubmitted wing nut judges, preparing the ground
for the 'nucular option.'
justice delay'd, again
The charges against Delay betray the wholesale prostitution of the legislative branch of the United States government, as well as ruthless politics camouflaged behind poll calibrated conservative populist and religious rhetoric. More than selling books, the Hammer and Company broke laws to collect money, spread influence, and dole out political goods in ways that spit in the face of the public good and line the pockets of themselves and their supporters. These tactics also violate house ethics rules and the law. Within the new Rovian political calculus of divide and conquer, DeLay & Co. may well stand a 50/50 chance of riding this thing out by holding the Hammer up as a noble conservative under attack from Godless liberal detractors.
A personal tragedy has become a national disgrace
How did one private right-to-refuse
case, like thousands of others, lead to an unusually specific bill,
applying only to one woman, passed by a congress that would otherwise
be out of session and signed by a president while he was otherwise
on vacation? How did this personal tragedy become fodder for political
grandstanding and the hamhanded obsession of broadcast media? Pure,
disgraceful opportunism.
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