The National Republican Party:
In Contempt of Courts
Tuesday 5th April 2005 (23h37) :
by Nashua Advocate
If the radical right’s utter contempt for our nation’s courts was anything less than wholly evident prior to tonight, that blinder has been at once and permanently removed. The worst kept secret about the Republican Party in 2005 is that it does not hate the federal government in its entirety: it merely loathes--and seeks desperately to decimate--one co-equal branch of that government, the judicial branch
If ignorance of the structure and operation of our national government were a crime, it would be necessary to indict a sizeable percentage of the ideological conservatives in the United States.
And to try, for high crimes, the vast majority of the Republican leadership in Washington.
Witness the remarks made yesterday by U.S. Representative Tom DeLay (R-TX) following the sixth rejection, by the United States Supreme Court, of appeals from the parents of Terri Schiavo to forcibly reinsert the brain-dead woman’s feeding tube contrary to her constitutional right to refuse medical treatment.
Witness, that is, DeLay’s cowardly and possibly criminal attempt to blame the subsequent death of Terri Schiavo on federal judges: "This loss happened because our legal system did not protect the people who need protection most, and that will change...[t]he time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior."
[U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) rebutted that "at a time when emotions are running high, Mr. DeLay needs to make clear that he is not advocating violence against anyone (in the judiciary)"].
And witness the statement from possible 2008 Republican presidential candidate and current U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, Rick Santorum: "The actions on the part of the Florida court and the U.S. Supreme Court [in the Schiavo case] are unconscionable."
Are these men truly this ignorant of basic civics, or are they merely pathetically unequipped for the intellectual debate this country has been conducting, for the past two hundred years, as to the proper operation and functioning of our national government?
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=5680
In Contempt of Courts
Tuesday 5th April 2005 (23h37) :
by Nashua Advocate
If the radical right’s utter contempt for our nation’s courts was anything less than wholly evident prior to tonight, that blinder has been at once and permanently removed. The worst kept secret about the Republican Party in 2005 is that it does not hate the federal government in its entirety: it merely loathes--and seeks desperately to decimate--one co-equal branch of that government, the judicial branch
If ignorance of the structure and operation of our national government were a crime, it would be necessary to indict a sizeable percentage of the ideological conservatives in the United States.
And to try, for high crimes, the vast majority of the Republican leadership in Washington.
Witness the remarks made yesterday by U.S. Representative Tom DeLay (R-TX) following the sixth rejection, by the United States Supreme Court, of appeals from the parents of Terri Schiavo to forcibly reinsert the brain-dead woman’s feeding tube contrary to her constitutional right to refuse medical treatment.
Witness, that is, DeLay’s cowardly and possibly criminal attempt to blame the subsequent death of Terri Schiavo on federal judges: "This loss happened because our legal system did not protect the people who need protection most, and that will change...[t]he time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior."
[U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) rebutted that "at a time when emotions are running high, Mr. DeLay needs to make clear that he is not advocating violence against anyone (in the judiciary)"].
And witness the statement from possible 2008 Republican presidential candidate and current U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, Rick Santorum: "The actions on the part of the Florida court and the U.S. Supreme Court [in the Schiavo case] are unconscionable."
Are these men truly this ignorant of basic civics, or are they merely pathetically unequipped for the intellectual debate this country has been conducting, for the past two hundred years, as to the proper operation and functioning of our national government?
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=5680
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