Terrorists in Robes

Ten years to the week, the smothering hand of right wing judicial terrorism again has clawed the throat of democracy.

It was December of 2000 when five Supreme Court puppets of the Republican Party cast aside legal precedence and any pretense of non-partisanship to halt a recount of Presidential votes in Florida...for fear that a full recount might 'cast a cloud' on the presidency of fellow puppet George W. Bush. As such, Anton Scalia and his fellow scum ushered in an era of fiscal disaster, Constitutional travesties, and the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans and Iraqis in order for Fearless Leader Bush to exorcise the demons of his desertion from the same armed forces he presumed to respect.

Today, we have experienced a lower-level travesty. But in its own way, it betrays the degree to which the feared 'judicial activism' so lamented by the right has in reality become their calling card...the central method by which they seek to reestablish the monarchy and class separation for which which our founding fathers risked their lives to deposit in the dust bin of history.

A Bush-appointed Federal judge in Virginia, Henry E. Hudson, has ruled that key provisions of the Obama Health Care Bill--the one that provides health insurance to many more Americans--AND reduces costs--are unconstitutional. Unsurprisingly, Hudson is part owner of an online political action firm that has lobbied against the Obama health bill. And the U.S. Attorney who brought the case to Hudson's court has also purchased the services of the same firm, Campaign Solutions Inc.

Scalia, thug that he is, at least had the decency to attempt a rationalization for the actions crowning Bush the boy king. Of course, those legal pretenses are destined to become a laughingstock of American jurisprudence for centuries to come. The two clowns in Virginia didn't have the same backbone. They quickly asserted that their cowardly conduct would ultimately be reviewed by a higher court...thus attempting to remove themselves from responsibility.

But they've done their jobs. They've set legal wheels in motion that will allow Scalia and cohorts to again overturn the will of the American people.

It's only a matter of time until people wake up...and take the law into their own hands.

And the law will be better for it.