The Rove/Dobson Call

I wonder if any of these “Pro-Life” ‘Baby Murderer’ Murderers (or PLBMMs - pronounced “pull bums” - for short) would exist at all if their mothers had had a choice. I know if I had a say, people like Dobbo and his ilk (I know he’s got an ilk somewhere, his kind always do) would be nothing more than a smear on the vacuum chamber of life. Perhaps they know this already, so, like reformed smokers, they are convinced that no-one else in the world should be able to have that as an option.

What a pity. That thought made perfect sense in my head, but when it got typed, it all went… wierd. Maybe my thoughts are getting oxidised or something by the Internet? Hey, that’s what I can do! Crusade against the Evil™ Thought-Murdering™ Liberal™ Conservative-Murdering™ internet.

Mmmmmmmmm… dark, dark skies…

It could be part of the same syndrome apparently ascribed to Santorum — former pro-choicer-cum-anti-choicer, only this time in reverse. Or maybe he’s being paid big-money to his organization to shut up this time around.

Thats celestial UTERUS. Being male, I sometimes get a little mixed up about female anatomy. Sorry.

In Heaven, all Fallopian tubes are coated with teflon to avoid problematic situations. An intelligent design that I think is still in the testing stages.

Not that there’s any sex there, unless ‘yer Muslim. Wait, is that really promised, or are there just 70 unattainable virgins for the blessed? Or is that hell? All these religions mix me up. Could a fundamentalist of the proper stripe weigh in on this?

http://www.stentorian.com/politics/terror/virgins.html

Regarding the current proposal in California’s upcoming special election (which we didn’t really need), which would require parental notification when minor females request an abortion, I’m with the writer of the letter to the editor who said that she would support parental notification of abortions for minor girls at exactly the same time that teenage boys were required to get parental permission to impregnate…

David, I couldn’t agree more.

Has anyone else noticed that the American Family Association (Mississippi) is threatening to boycott American Girl, a maker of dolls, because they are supporting Girls, Inc., which is represented as “a pro-abortion, pro-lesbian advocacy group.” Girls, Inc. encourages girls to think for themselves and stand up for what they believe. How unAmerican. How lesbian.

Back to the last conversation but one, on the nomination of Harriet Miers to the supreme court, the following excerpts from an opinion piece in the San Francisco Chronicle pretty much speak for themselves:

On Thursday, Tony Perkins, president of the conservative Family Research Council, called the administration’s efforts to woo religious conservatives by stressing Miers’ religion “out of bounds.”

Jan LaRue, chief counsel of the conservative Concerned Women for America, issued an extensive position statement Monday, saying, “We find it patronizing and hypocritical to focus on her faith in order to gain support for Miss Miers.”

You’d think they actually listened, back in civics class.

I cannot help but suspect that the real issue regarding Harriet Miers is that the Federalist Society is unhappy that she is not a Top 5 gunslinger (Harriet, you’re no Robert Bork). And she’s not a woman who’s been testeronized, to boot.

An even greater problem might be that she doesn’t understand that the power structure really doesn’t want Roe v. Wade overturned. And who knows - maybe she doesn’t really understand the actual role of women in a right wing world.

Most horrifying prospect of all might be that she will look to Ruth Bader Ginsberg for some guidance as she acclimates herself to her new job as a Supreme Court justice.

Too many unknowns for the reactionary Republican ideologues. It was, after all, Sam Brownbeck who objected early on, along with Trent “Hey W, Rebuild My Beachhouse” Lott.

At any rate, if she fails the reactionary Koolaid test, she might not be all bad, and she’s probably better than anybody the noisy right would be happy with. Be fun to watch Sam Brownback have an apoplectic seizure.

I think Bush momentarily fancied himself in charge and free to nominate whoever he wanted, and in this case it was his fourth mother (the other three being Barbara, Laura, and Karen). He’s an emotionally weak, tempermental adolescent with delusions of grandeur and absolutely no connection to reality.

From Saturday’s New York Times:

“You know, she’s a very gracious and funny person,” said Joshua B. Bolten, the director of the Office of Management and Budget whom Ms. Miers succeeded as deputy White House chief of staff in 2003. “I was racking my brain trying to think of something specific.”

In the next breath, Mr. Bolten recalled relaxing with her at Camp David. “She is a very good bowler,” he said. “For someone her size, she actually gets a lot of action out of the pins.”

There you have it, folks. A little light on Constitutional law, but able to pick up a seven-ten split.

This a good time for me to apologize to all the folks whom I’ve tried to correct over the last six years. Whenever someone said to me, “Bush is an idiot,” I’d always point out that he wasn’t stupid, just ignorant. I was wrong. Sorry.

“It is not important that she be confirmed because there is no evidence that she is among the leading lights of American jurisprudence, or that she possesses talents commensurate with the Supreme Court’s tasks. The president’s “argument'’ for her amounts to: Trust me. There is no reason to, for several reasons. He has neither the inclination nor the ability to make sophisticated judgments about competing approaches to construing the Constitution. Few presidents acquire such abilities in the course of their prepresidential careers, and this president, particularly, is not disposed to such reflections. Furthermore, there is no reason to believe that Miers’ nomination resulted from the president’s careful consultation with people capable of such judgments. If 100 such people had been asked to list 100 individuals who have given evidence of the reflectiveness and excellence requisite in a justice, Miers’ name probably would not have appeared in any of the 10,000 places on those lists.” — George Will

You know I don’t, as a rule, read or quote or think fondly of George Will (I think part of it’s the bow tie), but for the above passage, I’ll make an exception.

It still astounds me that this is the second time Bush has appointed a committee to choose a nominee for an important position, and the committee chairperson came back as the nominee. The first one was Dick Cheney…

Am I the only person who thinks there’s anything odd about this?? (Not that there’s anything unexpected about Dick Cheney nominating himself for VP, it’s exactly what one would expect him to do; but Harriet Miers??)

From a bumper sticker - “If you don’t believe in abortion, get a vasectomy.”

So, Dobson talked with God and his wife about this. Sounds like the man is doing his homework, for his ilk.

Now excuse me while I pray to the Great Lobster that he is SO wrong.

Okay, let me set the record straight on Harriet Miers. This is one outstanding and virtuous woman. With all the great parties we had back in Houston in the 1970’s & 1980’s, she never once accepted an invitation, though she had the great courtesy of sending thank you notes with each rejection. I think she would have never tasted the good times at all, if Lynda Bird Johnson had educated me and helped me out with the Texas Shanghai Maneouver (involves roping, hog-tying and tossing her into the trunk of a Cadillac DeVille). Once she was there, she appeared so stand-offish that we thought it proper to keep her tied up and gagged. Lefty tried to get her to loosen up a bit by running a garden hose from the keg to her mouth and openning the spigot, but that only seemed to make matters worse. As the evening wore on and some of the boys were getting a little frisky (& drunk), they carried her over and dropped her in the hot tub. So long as we kept her head above water, she behaved herself, though she was a mite bug eyed, if you ask me. Wilbur asked her to drop her top, but that only served to rile her up again. She got to being such a pain in the ass after that, that Zeke bopped her on the head and dropped her out in the desert. Fortunately, amnesia and hypothermia set in, and after a couple of weeks in the hospital, she was released, oblivous to what had happened. I’m glad for that, since she always seemed like a nice lady and I would have hated for Lem to have to break her knee caps after what she’d already been through.

Rep Tom Delay (R,TX)

Well, it’s obvious he’s dumber than a box of rocks, but then that’s a pretty high standard these days.

Personally, I like morons in general. It’s just the people who surround ‘em and use ‘em for their own purposes that grind my grits. Of course, this extends to all agendas, political, personal, and cultural.

I guess it wouldn’t have been so frustrating for “Right Thinking™” folks like us if Georgie boy had only been voted in for one term. It’s the repeat performance that has everyone in the free world worried about american politics.

As Joel Klein said, it’s gonna be a long 1200 days until January 20, 2009. (I hope I typed that OK, the tears have made it hard to read…)

Hedera, you guys do have my sympathy. The general feeling Down Under is that most Americans got the President they deserved. ‘Course, that’s just an oversimplification of a poor generalisation of a widely-held belief.

Last night we were treated to David Hasselhoff on one of our local “humorous” talk shows… The silence that greeted “The Hoff’s” many statements regarding Americans’ understanding of America’s place in the world as a “light of freedom” and the “global policeman” was…interesting, to say the least. The trouble is, many typical Australians fail to distinguish between a typical American and a thinking American. (This sounds like a good argument for compulsory vasectomy, doesn’t it?)

hedera,

I’m inclined to go with incompetent, but since I don’t think we can get a good nominee out of Bush, and because the right wants someone both more reactionary and a better gunslinger, she is the lesser evil. The business community will love her, of course, just as they love the new chief justice, a disarmingly dangerous gunslinger, but then the Court has always genuflected to the business community.

Besides, what could be a more fitting memorial to the Bush presidency than an utterly unqualified justice? Thomas, Scalia, Roberts, Miers - you’re still talking a minority, and perhaps this is what is needed to push Kennedy over into the Souter camp.

Still, Billy Budd probably offered the best overarching observation in “Billy in the Darbies”: “But aren’t it all sham?”

Bumper sticker seen by a friend in Hot Springs, North Carolina: Don’t Make Me Release the Flying Monkeys.