Did the floodgates suddenly open and now all the WEIRD is flowing out?

[FormerRepublican]

It seems to me like all the really whacko weird folks over on the right side of the aisle have flooded into public excess. There's the abortion bills in a multitude of states, the resolution to establish religion in a state, etc. etc. It's as if the rats know the boat is about to sink, so they're partying it up by indulging in right wing wacko depravity before the bitter end. They know the jig is up and 2006 will be the end of their self-righteous, controlling, revolting, unconstitutional tyranny. Gotta push that unconstitutional agenda while you can...

Maybe it's just me, but it seems as if the weird is definately rising.

[Ino]

They're in their last throes

n/t

[On the Road]

5. Don't Say That!

It could mean the prelude to civil war.

[TechBear_Seattle]

17. Let it come

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." -- Thomas Jefferson, a real American patriot.

Hi, Agent Mike! :hi: Make sure you get my address down correctly, I wouldn't want some innocent person arrested when DHS comes a-knocking!

[Pale_Rider]

19. I'm gained ...

... better than wasting time on the Internet.

Greets to Agent Mike! :kick:

[Inland]

11. JINX! nt

[Vincardog]

1. Right ya are a rising weird raises all rats

[hippiechick]

2. It's because they know they can ... the SCOTUS is on their side.

... now's the perfect time to take it as far up the food chain as they can, and possibly get it set into legal precedent and public policy.

:scared:

[rodeodance]

3. they are hoping to make court cases of of many of these--up to SC.

[teriyaki jones]

4. I'm definitely on overload right now

And it seems like some twisted, perverted STRATEGY to keep us from being able to focus, as each egregious act or revelation eclipses the last one, and so on, and so on . . .

[leftofthedial]

6. the religiously insane can see the writing on the wall

their criminal co-conspirators the repukes have totally screwed the pooch and will be out of power again for a couple of generations like they were after they caused the Great Depression

so they have to implement the Inquisition between now an November

[MadHound]

7. They're not doing this because of fear of losing this fall

They're doing this because the Supreme Court has radically shifted, and now is the time for all that weird BS to be pushed through. They realize that the Court will back their ass up, so they want to get the party started.

[Skittles]

10. MadHound nails it

the religious nuts know they have religious nuts on the court now

[EST]

26. It's a multiple front attack.

Scotus will have to issue a blanket ruling or have the docket tied up for years, hearing all the appeals from state appellate's rejected rulings.

The scotus bottleneck may prove to be their undoing. If the weird bunch are allowed to gamble away such a dramatic chunk of our privacy rights, the loss will be far more sweeping than women's reproductive rights.

These wingnuts have totally failed the course on unintended consequences.

Watching senate minority leader Reid hump up and whimper, while meekly absorbing a verbal whipping from sen. maj. ldr. Frist, earlier today, does not bode well for any intercession from congress.

The time has come for all good (wo)men to stand up for and come to the aid of their country.

[Inland]

12. The difference is that legislators are doing it now.

Either the legislators think they think these bills are going to be approved by the SC thanks to Alito, or they think they will fall and, son of a gun, there needs to be another eight years of fundamentalist christian efforts to elect republicans.

I personally think they are wrong. I think that the right wing christians think that putting up with thirty years of effort and eight years of republcian fuckhead rule is enough and they want their payback NOW. If this stuff gets struck down OR approved, they are going home and the backlash cometh.

Or maybe the repug legislators know that it's going to end up bad for them, but they can't stop dancing with teh right wing now.

[SpiralHawk]

8. Pluto at the Galactic Heart Center, 27 Sagittarius, of course

Please pay attention to the Galactic Mutation now underway

Klatoo Niktor Baratu, and In La' Kech, too -- SH

[Inland]

9. They aren't waiting any longer. It's payback time NOW.

It is my theory that the religious right and proto fascists know that Bush is a corrupt incompetent and all his various harebrained schemes have failed, but have stuck with him because they have specific interests that Bush is going to serve with supreme court appointments.

Well, it's the twilight of the Bush era, and they want their payback NOW. They aren't sticking by Bush after Katrina, Iraq and NOW THE PORTS in order to get some bullshit about haveing to elect yet another decade of republicans. They haven't mobilized to control the entire fed government, most of the states, all of the MSM, to have repug party leaders tell them that they have to wait and keep voting republican. It's been thirty years since Roe, they've watched republican presidents come and go, and it's TIME for them. They aren't going to wait another generation.

Either the republicans are going to deliver or they aren't. But the nutbags aren't going to wait another election cycle.

[PATRICK]

13. They weren't going to wait anyway

But the power plays in question bear the character of madness and desperation instead of shining triumph.

They should be exacerbated so the flecks of foam scare every TV hypnotized voter more than a nuke planted in their town square.

[napi21]

14. No, this is just the next step in their plan.

First was to get total control of all three branches. They think they finally did that with Roberts and Alito on the Court. The next step is to push all their issues through local legislatures, get them challenged, and sent to the SCOTUS.

They feel they finally have a chance to push all this through and get a favorable ruling.

I'm still not sure how I feel about this being done. I believe Alito will vote with Scalia, but I'm not so sure about Roberts. On one hand, I'd LOVE to see the abortion, religious displays, gay rights issues get to the SCOTUS and have the old laws upheld. Maybe it would finally put an end to the three top wedge issues in politics to bed. On the other hand, I'm afraid, because I'm just not sure how wthe court would rule. It appears to be a 5/4 court, and I'd party in the streets if a final ruling on Row was6/3 in favor of upholding it(the 3 of courst being Scalia, Thomas, and Alito).

[TallahasseeGrannie]

15. I don't think they have clued into the fact that

their days in power are numbered. They think with the new SCOTUS they have a chance with all this wacky stuff. What a mess it is going to be cleaning this up.

[LisaLynne]

24. I agree.

I think this was the plan all along and the minions haven't gotten the message that they're in trouble and the whole think is sinking fast. Anyway, yeah, it's been weird.

[stepnw1f]

16. We Have an Excellent Case to Impeach Alito

[Virginia Dare]

20. Gotta get a Dem majority to make it happen.

Fundies are gonna pull out all the stops to make sure it doesn't.

[stepnw1f]

22. They are a Minority

If we work hard we will woop their asses! No exclusive small party of folks can beat us if we work together.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

25. Pardon my ignorance

but can that really be done? Based on a case, or what? Are you talking about the thank you note, maybe? (and how dumb was THAT?)

[Pale_Rider]

27. Yes, Supreme Court Justices ...

... are impeachable.

Here's Gerald Ford's remarks on the impeachment of Supreme Court Justice William Douglas back in 1970.

http://www.ford.utexas.edu/library/speeches/700415a.htm

[TallahasseeGrannie]

28. Was Douglas actually impeached

or this was just speculation about it? I ought to know, but I was only 20 and busy with other things!

[Pale_Rider]

29. No, since we had held the majority ...

From Wikipedia ...

The Rosenberg case
On June 16, 1953, Douglas granted a temporary stay of execution to Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, the two alleged Soviet spies who had been convicted of selling the plans for the atomic bomb to the Russians. The basis for the stay was that the Rosenbergs had been sentenced to die by Judge Irving Kaufman without the consent of the jury. While this was permissible under the Espionage Act of 1917, which the Rosenbergs were tried under, a later law, the Atomic Secrets Act of 1946, held that only the jury could pronounce the death penalty. Since, at the time the stay was granted, the Supreme Court was out of session, this meant that the Rosenbergs could expect to wait at least six months before the case was heard.

When Attorney General James P. McGranery heard about the stay, however, he immediately took his objection to Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson, who took the unprecedented step of reconvening the Supreme Court before the appointed date. On June 19, the Court ruled that the crime in question fell under the 1917 law, not the latter. The Court set aside Douglas's stay. Douglas, who had already left for vacation in Oregon, did not attend the proceedings.

Due to opposition to his decision, Douglas briefly faced impeachment proceedings in Congress. Attempts to remove him from the Court were unsuccessful, because the Democratic Party, of which Douglas was a member, held the majority.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_O._Douglas

[annabanana]

18. I'm thinkin'

"yup"

[Ksec]

21. I believe your description of the sinking ship is right on.

Last ditch efforts before they get sent back to the fringe from which they oozed forth and laid a pox upon society.

[thinkingwoman]

23. I love the smell of desperation in the morning

The whackoright can see that the pendulum has stopped swinging in their direction. They know the hesitation will be brief and then the pendulum will swing with a vengeance opposite of their goals. They're gasping and grasping for all their worth.

It's fun to watch, actually.

:popcorn: