My thanks to him. Corruption as been growing since Nixon's "pardon". We should never have stood for it this long and let it spread this far, but it's high time for more Americans to call it by its name.
Leonard Leo's picks for SCOTUS have already had tragic and perhaps irreversible consequence way beyond Dobbs.
Dobbs was a tragedy but there have been several others as HCR points out that are terrible. Thomas, Alito and Robert's need to retire so we can reverse some of their terrible decisions.
JL Graham, I agree. As HCR and others have red circled before - the absolute weight of consequences must be paud in a democracy by those who defy the common good in the rule if law. Shame is a real thing.
And lack of shame (or rather the capacity for experiencing guilt) and conscience is an evil "superpower". Evil sociopaths often attract a rapt following, but they will sell out anything or anyone to maximize their dominance.
Alexandra - Can you imagine the brilliant school kids we'd have coming up if only a Sheldon Whitehouse-like teacher were in every school? Maybe we could tape his whiteboard lessons for the classrooms? Hell, tape them and broadcast them to our living ooms at 7PM each evening! He's brilliant.
A glass eye in a duck's ass can see our right wing Supreme Court is owned and operated by the brotherhood of the ever growing JB bigoted boys billionaires club. This is corruption at the highest levels of our government. Fist pump to Senator Whitehouse. The man is like a dog with a bone fighting for us. Democrats protect people, Republicans protect property. They believe, we the people are their property.
They protect property, which is OK up to a point. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable government searches and seizures, but also against thieves. The big controversy is the right to monopolize wealth and power. We as a society decided to dial back some to that monopolization, in the form of abolition in the 1800s, and women's rights, civil rights, gay right, antitrust, regulation of campaign financing, fairness doctrine, etc. especially after the the excesses and corruption of the Gilded Age. We as a nation fell for a well financed and organized propaganda campaign to abandon important portions of those reforms with the embrace of "Reaganomics".
Senator Whitehouse has been very good at pointing out the corruption in the Supreme Court.
My thanks to him. Corruption as been growing since Nixon's "pardon". We should never have stood for it this long and let it spread this far, but it's high time for more Americans to call it by its name.
Leonard Leo's picks for SCOTUS have already had tragic and perhaps irreversible consequence way beyond Dobbs.
Dobbs was a tragedy but there have been several others as HCR points out that are terrible. Thomas, Alito and Robert's need to retire so we can reverse some of their terrible decisions.
Instead they call Democrats “libtards.”
JL Graham, I agree. As HCR and others have red circled before - the absolute weight of consequences must be paud in a democracy by those who defy the common good in the rule if law. Shame is a real thing.
And lack of shame (or rather the capacity for experiencing guilt) and conscience is an evil "superpower". Evil sociopaths often attract a rapt following, but they will sell out anything or anyone to maximize their dominance.
Whitehouse is a treasure and a force.
Alexandra - Can you imagine the brilliant school kids we'd have coming up if only a Sheldon Whitehouse-like teacher were in every school? Maybe we could tape his whiteboard lessons for the classrooms? Hell, tape them and broadcast them to our living ooms at 7PM each evening! He's brilliant.
A glass eye in a duck's ass can see our right wing Supreme Court is owned and operated by the brotherhood of the ever growing JB bigoted boys billionaires club. This is corruption at the highest levels of our government. Fist pump to Senator Whitehouse. The man is like a dog with a bone fighting for us. Democrats protect people, Republicans protect property. They believe, we the people are their property.
Oh, my! "A glass eye in a duck's ass"! I absolutely LOVE that!
They protect property, which is OK up to a point. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable government searches and seizures, but also against thieves. The big controversy is the right to monopolize wealth and power. We as a society decided to dial back some to that monopolization, in the form of abolition in the 1800s, and women's rights, civil rights, gay right, antitrust, regulation of campaign financing, fairness doctrine, etc. especially after the the excesses and corruption of the Gilded Age. We as a nation fell for a well financed and organized propaganda campaign to abandon important portions of those reforms with the embrace of "Reaganomics".