Another Levee Breaks: The Death of Rehnquist Means More Disaster .

[dutchdemocrat]

Another Levee Breaks: The Death of Rehnquist Means More Disaster

Monday, 05 September 2005

"When you think that you've lost everything,
You find out you can always lose a little more...."
-- B. Dylan, "Trying to Get to Heaven"

Looks like America has hit the trifecta of disaster in the past week: first the storm, then the flood and now the death of rightwing hatchet man William Rehnquist. Like the destruction in the Delta, Rehnquist's long-expected but still-untimely death is a disaster whose malign effects will reverberate far into the future.

Rehnquist's death gives Bush another opening on the Supreme Court -- another youngish rightwing hatchet man (or hatchet woman) to poison the system for decades to come -- and the opportunity to name the Chief Justice. It is the cruelest irony: in the very week that the gross criminal incompetence of the Bush Faction has been exposed for the whole nation to see -- the consequences of their exaltation of cronyism and ideological crankery above everything else, including the lives of their own people -- the Bushists now get to cement this wicked mindset into the Supreme Court for generations to come.

Will a Court led by judges appointed by this pathetic little cretin -- this liar, this betrayer, this prancing, strutting little ass -- uphold any measures that might be taken to alleviate the kind of brutal racial and economic barriers that were exposed by the abandonment of New Orleans? Not bloody likely.

Of course, with the Bush Faction in charge of Congress -- and the Democratic "opposition" bought and sold by the same corporate bosses who gorge the Faction -- it's not likely that any substantial effort to grapple with American society's murderous inequalities and corrosive imbalance will take place anyway. At the very most, the Democrats might exert all their feeble strength and manage -- possibly -- to postpone a vote on the latest tax cuts for the rich (including the Pamper Paris Hilton Act, or the gutting of all estate taxes which is now Bush's top priority) for, oh, a few weeks. Or maybe they won't even manage that.

But even if the murder of New Orleans were to prompt a great wave of public revulsion, and sweep a new generation of genuinely public-minded public officials into office, their best efforts will be constantly undercut, hollowed out and shot down by the Bush Court, which will be working its deadly mischief long after the strutting cretin has left the national scene.

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[jfern]

1. Too bad that there's no real hope

If we could get 41 non-push over Democrats in the Senate to shut the fucking government down until Bush gets the fuck out of office, maybe we could do something, but the Democratic party is way too spineless.

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. You last paragraph should be highlighted:

But even if the murder of New Orleans were to prompt a great wave of public revulsion, and sweep a new generation of genuinely public-minded public officials into office, their best efforts will be constantly undercut, hollowed out and shot down by the Bush Court, which will be working its deadly mischief long after the strutting cretin has left the national scene.

That's the truth. Bush has carefully appointed heads to every important branch of government and executive agency so that they will continue to undermine anyone who really has the heart to serve the public. They will burn-out anybody who challenges them. They are more dangerous than the mafia, they are less honest than a bloody public military coup.

I really don't see where we can turn the tide around here on our own. I just hope that foreign countries don't allow this to happen to their countries. Stop the Limbaughs of this country from bleeding into theirs. At least we'll have somewhere to run to once this country is so invaded by the right, that it can never be America again.

[Demeter]

3. Timing On The Rhenquist Death

Why did that horrid, mean, little man die now? Three possibilities:


a) Buyer's remorse. After seeing the latest fallout of his decision to put Bush in office, Rhenquist died of shame and grief. It's possible.

b) He was helped along. After all, "euthanasia" is always an option, when the government is run by political "operatives".

c) Nature took its course. And its own sweet time.

Pick your choice!