wow

[winterbadger]

http://www.aclu.org/LesbianGayRights/LesbianGayRights.cfm?ID=16142&c=101

That's about as far as I can go in describing my astonishment. Some congressmen think they can pass a law making it unlawful for the Supreme Court of the United States to review a piece of federal legislation or state courts' action on it. I don't know whether to be angry at their arrogance and bigotry or pity them for their stupidity. The former, I think, because I have to assume they're not actually stupid and are offering the legislation for propaganda purposes because they think their constituents will be stupid enough not to know it's unconstitutional prima facie.

Wow.

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[kathygnome.livejournal.com]

I'm cynical. I think that the current group, particularly the house, probably not only doesn't understand what the consitution says, but would march over to the archives and put it in a shredder if they did. Nevermind the people in the Cheney regime.

Over the last 20 years, particularly since the Reagan administration, the GOP has slowly morphed from a conservative party into a fascist party. There's a shocking number who simply do not believe that democrats and non-Christians have a right to representation in the political process. And they certainly reject the entire notion that the courts are able to review any laws because they believe quite firmly in the tyranny of the majority and that individual rights must be subverted to the majority's will.

[winterbadger]

And they certainly reject the entire notion that the courts are able to review any laws because they believe quite firmly in the tyranny of the majority and that individual rights must be subverted to the majority's will.

I would believe that, except that they seem to be quite happy with the courts when they rule in their favour. Just as one of their major planks is state's rights, except when states start having different ideas about marriage or guns than they do. Just as when they're for less government, except when they can actually decide what that government does, in which case they want more, not less. And they're all about being Judeo-Christian, until denominations of those religions start talking about ordaining and marrying gay people. Then there's something wrong.

I will agree that the Republican Party has changed, horrifyingly, over the past 40 years. Richard Nixon was rgarded as an abberation; now he would be normal. They've done their best to destroy the fabric of reasoned, meaningful political debate in this country, all in the interest of winning an election. I would like to think that my grandmother, a woman who spent many years workign hard for the Republican Party in New England, would be disgusted by them today and have one of her famously crushing remarks for any member of it she chanced to meet. (I think I know what she's say about GWB, given that she thought his father was a total idiot when he was an undergraduate in the university where her husband taught.)