Can we say "activist judges" yet?

[Skidmore]

My, weren't those Rs slick. How many times can you beg the question?

[shadowknows69]

1. And yet according the the rethugs, judges appointed by Dems legislate from the bench.

I'd like to know how this isn't that?

[Lasher]

2. This projection is a basic part of wingnut behavior.

Think about 'class warfare'.

[tom_paine]

3. Nope. As per Orwell's instructions that one has been trademarked by BushInc.

I have to give credit to Poppy, Cheney and the rest of the successors to the Dulles Crime Family for creating a mutlifaceted and amazing 40 year long PsyOp which makes Hitler and Goebbels look like Kindergarten children.

You see, due to constant repetition (and ZERO pushback from our gutless Democratic "Leaders"), ANY use of the words "activist judges" triggers unconscious and automatic "liberal hate". Just in the same way that, even now twenty years later, saying "Where's the Beef?" to someone old enough will trigger mental images of little old ladies and drippy square Wendyburgers.

As Orwell prophesied and probably hundreds of Frank Luntzes have put into modern practice, they have indeed taken away the very words with which one can even express discontent with them.

Don't believe me? Try it for yourself. It's an easy enough experiment to perform over and over. Use the words "activist judge" in a sentence condemning Bushies and, 99 times out of 100, if the person is, shall we say, an apolitical disinterested observer, you will have to explain for 10 minutes that you're NOT harshing on liberals and liberal ideas/values.

If you can even get that far, by the end of your explanation you will either have forgotten the point you were originally trying to make or the listener will glaze over.

And this is only one facet on the diamond, one druplet on the blueberry, so to speak, and it's a BIG blueberry.

The CIA Bush Gang REALLY knows their stuff. We never had a chance.

[daa]

4. Look, when chimpy singed this bill in 2002

he thought it was unconstitutional and many, many other. Now it is, that is not activist. People crack me up. You get upset about something like this that we knew was coming for 8 years and yet 90% of what they vote on is business related. Everyday Alito and the business boys vote to strip your pensions, weaken age discrimination laws and everything else and this gets all the attention.

[slackmaster]

5. I plan to read the actual ruling before passing that kind of judgment on them

I am just as interested in the legal and logical basis for the decision as I am in the obvious ramifications of the decision itself.

[LuckyTheDog]

6. Make THIS your Facebook status

"Money is not speech and human beings -- not corporations -- are persons entitled to constitutional rights. If you agree, copy this into your Facebook status and encourage others to do the same."