You Might Be A Fake Conservative if...

Activist Judges Wanted: Apply At GOP.Com.

Published on March 21, 2005 By kingbee In Current Events

a. you stay up all night with a bunch of your hypocrite associates to pass a law that violates the balance of powers.

b. you vote for a law that is in direct opposition to the constitution by interfering with the rights of the several states (well actually a single state..but for the 2nd time in five years).

c. you go out of your way to help enact a law that permits the federal government to impose itself into an individual family's affairs and cater to the the religious beliefs of your political supporters and force their so-called moral values on a married couple.

d. you are a former governor of texas who routinely rejected appeals of citizens facing execution--despite the fact that your state has a horrendous record of railroading defendants in capital cases--and can say this without being struck dead on the spot: "In cases like this one, where there are serious questions and substantial doubts, our society, our laws and our courts should have a presumption in favor of life," President Bush said in a statement after signing the bill.

e. you've been whining for years about activist judges but then go to incredible lengths in hopes of finding one who will validate all the abuses listed above.

Comments (Page 1)

Dr Guy

on Mar 21, 2005

I think there were a sizable number of Democrats who voted for the bill as well. Does that make them 'fake liberals'?

Ionolast

on Mar 21, 2005

Isn't it interesting that the Governor of Florida is President Bush's brother?

Dr Guy

on Mar 21, 2005

Isn't it interesting that the Governor of Florida is President Bush's brother?

Just an accident of birth.

Ionolast

on Mar 21, 2005

Their births were accidental? That could explain a lot.

Dr Guy

on Mar 21, 2005

Their births were accidental? That could explain a lot.

So does you lobotomy, but that is a different blog.

bakerstreet

on Mar 21, 2005

You are too smart for an article like this, Kingbee. Were the Conservative abolitionists before the Civil War fakes when they tried to impose an end of slavery? Was Roe v. Wade an imposition of Federal power when MOST states wanted to leave their bans on abortion in place? You guys can obviously dish out "moral" imposition, so can't you take them?

There's nothing "fake" about this. The state of Florida is allowing someone who abandoned his spouse ten years ago to now force her family to watch her starve to death. It's heinous, and barbaric. If the Federal government can step in and tell states they have to let women have abortions, it's asinine to say that they can't make legislation preventing acts like this.

You might be a fake Liberal if you suddenly get all pissed about state's rights when Liberalism has a century-old history of walking all over them.

sheesh. You didn't think this one through, huh?

Myrrander

on Mar 21, 2005

I like the bit about "activist judges." I think you should read that one again, Baker.

stutefish

on Mar 21, 2005

You might be a fake liberal if you spend your time pointing out the hypocrisy of others, instead of defending the lives of the most helpless among us.

bakerstreet

on Mar 21, 2005

Myrrander: Yes, I often talk about activist judges. I think there is a shade of activism involved in this as well.

Imagine walking into an immigration hearing and telling the judge that "Sure, I have been living with another woman for ten years and have a family elsewhere, BUT that is really my wife and I should be allowed to stay..."

You'd be laughed out of court. Because this is a "right to die" case, though, all such eccentricities are apparently overlooked in the face of the "issues"... Heard that one before?

These aren't activist judges trying to keep her from being killed. These are legislators trying to pass a law to confront an injustice they see playing out in front of them.

That was Liberal chic' when in the 1960's, or 1860's. Now, though, it is somehow "obstructionist" to protect the rights of handicapped people who are being discarded like garbage.

Evidently Kingbee and Myrr don't have a problem with judges trying to be legislators, but woe unto the legislator that tries to be a legislator...

bakerstreet

on Mar 21, 2005

I mean gah, you guys can overlook judges basically acting as legislators by the impossibly loose interpretations of the Constitution we've seen, and yet when legislators pass a law, Oh My!! how dare they?!!!??!?!?

Legislators make law.

Judges interperate law.

So, apparently, judges trying to impose a new definition of "life" on all the rest of us through such a decision is okay, bypassing the legislative branch entirely, but legislators passing a law against such a thing isn't.

*boggle*...

Draginol

on Mar 21, 2005

Bakerstreet: Very insightful.

I consider myself generally pro-death on most issues. But in this one, the parents should be the ones deciding. The "husband" has clearly moved on. I don't understand why the parents don't have the right to keep her alive? Why are the liberals clamouring for her death?

messybuu

on Mar 21, 2005

Why are the liberals clamouring for her death?

That's what I wonder too. Sure, if she was in tremendous pain, I'd understand their desire to have her "euthanized" (amazing how euthanasia doesn't require one's consent these days), but they themselves have said that she's too dead to feel anything, so why rush her death?

I personally think it's because of their dislike for Republicans and Bush. It's a political tool.

kingbee

on Mar 22, 2005

Were the Conservative abolitionists before the Civil War fakes when they tried to impose an end of slavery? Was Roe v. Wade an imposition of Federal power when MOST states wanted to leave their bans on abortion in place? You guys can obviously dish out "moral" imposition, so can't you take them?

were there conservative (federalist) abolitionists? to a certain point, i guess lincoln might qualify looking at things from our vantage point some 140 years in the future although i doubt his contemporaneous critics thought of him in that way.

roe v wade is obviously an imposition of federal power over that of the states. i doubt i need explain to you the difference between an interpretation of the constitution (whether we agree or disagree as to it being a correct interpretation isnt important is it?) and convening a session of congress to push through a law intended to subvert the power of a state and its courts to regulate matters reserved to it by the constitution as well as the federal judiciary which has determined that to be the case in this matter.

despite the tragic circumstances involved--or perhaps more importantly because of them--this is now a situation in which the executive branch and the congress are assuming to themselves powers expressly forbidden them by the constitution (as well as overriding the power of the judiciary) at the expense of individual rights.

kingbee

on Mar 22, 2005

I think there were a sizable number of Democrats who voted for the bill as well. Does that make them 'fake liberals'

nawwww. yall have convinced me they're out to turn this into the united socialist states of america so i expect it from them.

kingbee

on Mar 22, 2005

the Governor of Florida is President Bush's brother?

Just an accident of birth

and ghwbush? another accident? what are the odds of that happening again?

considering the abuses florida has suffered at the hands of the bush dynasty, perhaps it should be renamed to something more appropriate...bushmorassia perhaps? come to think of it, it's the perfect place to be the new capitol of the united stalinist states of america--complete with the kind of statues they have in pyongyang of the entire dynasty.

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