Green Eagle

By which, of course, I mean to destroy democracy in this country once and for all.  I urgently recommend that you read this short piece at Mother Jones, which I found via Digby.  The following chart is a sample of what you will find there: I repeat that it has been the intent of the five corrupt Republican justices to accomplish just this.  It is, in fact, the intent of all Republicans (except of course the really stupid ones who think that, if they just elect a Republican president, they too will be worth billions real soon) to see to it that 2,000 families or so run this country, and that all of the rest of us are reduced to the status of helpless peons who are forced to live with whatever scraps they care to throw our way, or else starve to death in a ditch somewhere.  Maybe we'll win this election.  Maybe we'll win the next one.  But these people know perfectly well that in the end we cannot stand up in the face of this mockery of a democratic sy...

Via the ever-valuable Daily Kos , this story from Bloomberg , illustrating the degree to which the Republican party has worked for decades to destroy any semblance of the government we have had in this country for two hundred odd years: "Obama Health Law Seen Valid, Scholars Expect Rejection The U.S. Supreme Court should uphold a law requiring most Americans to have health insurance if the justices follow legal precedent, according to 19 of 21 constitutional law professors who ventured an opinion on the most-anticipated ruling in years. Only eight of them predicted the court would do so. “The precedent makes this a very easy case,” said Christina Whitman, a University of Michigan law professor. “But the oral argument indicated that the more conservative justices are striving to find a way to strike down the mandate.” Click through to the article if you'd like- you'll find similar views from a number of other legal scholars. Let me make what is being said here c...

Newt Gingrich, speaking about health care legislation today, demonstrating his deep commitment to democracy: "the United States is not going to tolerate a group of people trying apply kind of a Hugo Chavez majoritarian rule in the Senate." Rule by the despotic minority? That's okay I guess. But only a Communist dictator would support majority rule. The American way, Republican style.