Michele Bachmann and a group of fellow Republican lawmakers just gave a press conference. It was about pro-life Dem. Rep. Bart Stupak’s decision to drop his abortion-oriented opposition to the health care bill.
Fine. There was nothing in the reform bill that allowed any federal money to pay for abortions, and there never was. But whatever.
But Bachmann, et al., couched their chastisement of Stupak as a defense of the rule of law. How much they love the rule of law. How necessary it is to our system. The effing rule of law. Specifically, the rule of law as opposed the rule of a man. From people who couldn’t cheer loudly enough at every radical expansion of executive authority at the expense of the rule of law over the past 8 years, and continue to vigorously support that Bush-Cheney line on extreme executive authority, and the inability of any law to ever limit it.
I don’t know whether this is coming from their stupidity or their dishonesty, but whichever it is, it truly is bottomless. They could, if any reporter had bothered to ask, have stood there and taken both positions in a single sentence without batting an eye.
I haven’t posted here in a long time, and I’m finding I don’t have the words for how angry this makes me, but I couldn’t just sit here and take it. So.
Tags: executive authority, rule of law
March 22, 2010 at 10:29 am |
After boldly steeling the DEEP STUPID idea from you (with appropriate acknowledgment,) I went on to say this in my very first D S entry:
I’ve argued with Urbino occasionally about whether the Deep Stupid things you hear are actual reflections of genuine right wing stupidity, or just things right wing tools say because they are whores.
I guess, if you can’t tell, it doesn’t matter.
Still true.
BTW, and miss your posts, and keep a self-updating link on my blog.
Good to hear from you again.
Cheers!
JzB
March 23, 2010 at 5:11 pm |
Thanks, jb.
May 19, 2011 at 6:42 pm |
Thank you very good idea.