Re: LeTurd Not Very Bright

"Marie A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > Gee marie, I think you qualify as a super-kook. You just told us the
> > Supreme court broke the law, and doesn't have the power to review and
> > decide cases that come before it. --Not.
>
>
> My good man, what I told you was something quite different, namely
> that the SC gets to pick and choose those cases which it will review
> and those which it won't, the net effect of which is a de facto
> reshaping of the culture as accords with what they believe needs
> changing. What this effectively translates into is leftists hammering
> on this and other federal courts with frivolous cases aimed at the
> piecemeal usurpation of the sovereignty of states in legislating their
> own affairs under the charade that some hitherto unknown right not
> enumerated in the Constitution is being violated.
>
> That's what I told you. That you can't seem to grasp the danger this
> poses for a democratic republic is quite another matter. You have to
> understand a couple of things here. Liberals are generally
> unprincipled in their approach to these matters, that which works for
> them in the short term being the yardstick by which they gauge these
> things. Bush v Gore notwithstanding, we have had a very liberal court
> for the last 50 years, but that arrangement is not inscribed in
> granite, my friend. Should that turn around with three more young
> justices like Scalia and Thomas, a conservative court can likewise
> reshape this society in ways you can't even dream of.
>
> How can they do this, you ask? Well, the same exact way your crowd did
> it in the last few decades. Give us a court like that and cases will
> be brought before it challenging a whole host of issues you thought
> were settled matters. And since this same court you loved when it
> ruled your way now gets to cherry pick the cases it will hear, any
> guesses as to what's going to start happening? What will happen is
> YOUR ox will start to get gored, and big time.
>
> You are not a very bright person, sir, if you can't grasp the idea

That letoured is "not a very bright person" is already well established here
in the newsgroup, Marie.  ;-)

Neil



> that what you use to pummel your adversaries won't one day be turned
> around on you in like fashion. You just got a taste of that in 2000,
> and plenty more is coming down the road if the republicans stick to
> their guns and get a couple more Scalias on that bench.
>
> Cordially, Marie