JUSTICE ROBERTS IS A WUSS

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http://jimhightower.com//node/7087


Little Johnnie Roberts is PO'd, and he's now stamping his tiny feet in a Constitutional tantrum.

Roberts, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, has his judicial knickers in a knot because he recently felt the hot wind of democracy sweep over him, causing him and his corporatist cousins on the court to sweat under their black cloaks. At issue was Roberts' January act of raw judicial arrogance, in which he and his cabal of four other Supreme extremists decreed that the infinite money of corporations must be allowed to trump the voice of the people and rule American politics.

This five-man assault on our nation's historic democratic process provoked a response from the President of the United States. In his State of the Union speech, Barack Obama rightly charged that they had "opened the floodgates for to spend without limits in our elections," thus drowning out the voices of ordinary Americans.

This rebuke from an elected official practically caused the sensitive mugger of our democratic rights to fall faint. "The process is broken down," whined Roberts (the very guy who had just broken America's democratic process). Moaning that it was a lack of "decorum" for a president to chastise the judicial branch of government, even though that branch had usurped the powers of the two elected branches, Roberts sighed that the president's expression of democratic outrage toward the imperious court was "very troubling." Indeed, the chief supremist wanly suggested that he and other justices might boycott the president's future national addresses: "I'm not sure why we're there," he sniffed – apparently assuming that we would all feel his pain.

Well, gosh, Johnnie, I have no sympathy for you. You're there because it's the one time when all three branches of the people's government come together in person and in public – and face the music for the black-robed coup you pulled on us. Is that too much to ask?

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thank you Jim

[blondeatlast]

1. Checks and balances? Separation of Powers? the right to free expression (which includes

the president, last time I checked)?

Damn that whole Constitution and democracy stuff, eh, Johnnie?

What a baby.

[gratuitous]

2. Dang, I love Jim Hightower

Ever since I saw him at the Democratic National Convention (was it as long ago as 1988, or the one in 1992?). He was introduced as the Texas Agricultural Commissioner, a little guy in a big cowboy hat. He got up to the podium, doffed his hat and went on for 10 or 15 electrifying and transformative minutes. "George Bush, this toothache of a man, who was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple."

The Democrats are well served when they listen to this man.

[unhappycamper]

3. Roberts, Alito, Scalia, Thomas and... ?

Whose number five in the RW clique?

Note: It's a bitch getting old.

[RaleighNCDUer]

4. The 'moderate' swing vote, Kennedy.

Considered a swing vote because 10% of the time he actually votes against the other four.

[unhappycamper]

6. Thank you. n/t

[lonestarnot]

10. Ackety.

[annabanana]

5. kickers. . . n/t

[DCKit]

7. Kick n/t

[liberalhistorian]

8. Ah, yes, little Bigshot Jimmy. Tireless Champion

of the Overdog and Overprivileged. Fucking gag. And, as someone in the legal field, it's especially galling to see how he's blatantly trampling on the Constitution, precedent, the rights of citizens, etc., etc. Even many conservative lawyers I know are pissed.

[lonestarnot]

9. Maybe he's afraid someone would smack him in the head with an egg, a pie or a rotten tomato

:evilgrin: