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October 14, 2005

I Agree Mike, but ...

Mike,

Right-wingers like those at NRO "get it" all right. They desire the appointment of SCOTUS and lesser judges to be predictable partisan advocates of their agenda. So as the law cases about creationism, end of life issues, gay marriage, reproductive rights, Internet porn, drug laws, jailing without trial, asset forfeiture, and other items dear to their hearts come up they receive a proper and doctrinaire right-wing response. Legal scholarship and experience isn’t needed for this. Monkeys could do it really.

NRO is bastion of right-wing chickenhawks, neo-cons, and repressive social conservatives. They may "get it" but who cares? They are uber statists too. The Left (we’re told by the NRO types) desire sympathetic judges because they can’t enact their programs through legislatures and or the ballots box. A valid criticism to be sure. However the right wishes the same result: They too are unable to muster a coalition to roll back Leviathan either legislatively or at the ballot box. So they too turn to the courts to help them implement their agenda. They’ve been battling Roe v. Wade for 32 YEARS! Despite the fact that since Roe (1973) Republican presidents have been in power for all but 12 of those 32 years. More than enough time to put a SCOTUS majority favorable to their views in place, eh? So why haven’t they been able to overturn Roe in court or by legislation then?

Because it’s all a shell game, that's why. The Right instead only wishes to organize, propagandize, and fund raise over Roe. Rich Lowery and the rest of his ilk would probably shit in their pants if the Congress or SCOTUS actually did overturn Roe. Then what would the social conservatives and religious fundys organizing meme be? They desire as Orwell put it in 1984 "perpetual war for perpetual peace".