Posted on 06/28/2005 4:21:25 PM PDT by Desron13
Blame Bush, not liberals --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
My friend Joseph Farah is 100 percent right that the Supreme Court ruling against homeowners and their property is an outrage. But as I read on the WND website the usual accusations about "activist judges" and "liberals," I wonder if conservatives could just step back for a second and look at what has really happened.
It seems to me this ruling is more an example of pandering to big business, rather than an example of liberal philosophy. Most liberals I know are quite opposed to the takeover of so much of our life by giant and impersonal conglomerates, and object to how these corporations make it impossible for family-run businesses to compete.
Many of you have turned "liberals" into the convenient scapegoats for everything, but you can lay this one at the feet of the Bush administration. There has not been a more corporation-friendly president in years. The results are frightening if you are an average working person: It's harder to file for bankruptcy, credit-card interest can go as high as 30 percent with nothing you can do about it, gas prices continue to skyrocket, lobbyists have inordinate influence in writing our laws, and American jobs keep getting outsourced.
But readers of WND, instead of admitting that this president and the Republican-led Congress have made only rich people their top priority and ignored everyone else, continue to blame "activist judges and liberals." The mind boggles.
I fully expect to be disagreed with, and I'm ready. But before you tell me I'm wrong, please think about what I've said. Many of you love this president, and while we may never agree about that, please look at the policies that led to the disgraceful Supreme Court ruling – and liberals didn't do it. Greed did it, and isn't it shameful that we generate so little outrage about the selfishness and corruption of our political leaders – and not just our liberal political leaders.
Joseph Farah is right that the Supreme Court should be ashamed, but he is wrong to expect the Bush administration to do anything about it. Why would the president and the Congress disrupt their pattern of favoring big business at the expense of the rest of us?
Donna L. Halper
If it's anything like the recent Ten Commandments ruling you will be able to keep your gun in some states but not others.
Of course. It's ALL Bush's fault. Everyone knows that. Sheesh.
The 5 supremes were the LIBS, is that confusing, not really.
So who do YOU think we wouldn't be "sold down the river" by, Libertarians?
They'd all be to stoned to know the difference! All 3 of them!
yep Bush appointed EVERY ONE of the justices on the Supreme Court...
World Nut Daily, still leading in being the NYT of the right wing.....
Stevens, Beyers, Ginsberg, Souter. No, they're not liberals are they?
BTW, on which side were conservatives like Scalia and Thomas?
Socialism and corporatism can co-exist very nicely together, as they did in the fascist and Nazi regimes and do under European style socialism today. They have a common enemy - the bourgeois smallholder, whom both despise. This is how the Democratic Party can be equally welcoming to the super-rich and the underclass at the same time. They hate the middleclass, which is the victim of the most recent SCOTUS ruling.
I blame Bush for not turning the wind out of the WNW and also for not making it rain at night while keeping it sunny and comfortably warm all day.
Tyrrants in Black Robes
"Most liberals I know are quite opposed to the takeover of so much of our life by giant and impersonal conglomerates"
It doesn't take a genius to figure out that conservatives are just as angry about this.
WTH? Someone want to 'splain this one to me?
FOFLOL!
The liberal wing of the Supreme Court authored and signed this decision. What motivated them (since we all know it's not the law or justice)?
You mean how the Conservatives on the court are against the ruling? How every Conservative I know is against this ruling?
How about the only people I know that support this are leftists.
This is a fascist ruling, plain and simple.
Just because you are pro-business doesn't make you a fascist. Supporting this "decision" makes you one. Show me ONE Conservative on this site or anywhere for that matter that agrees with this.
She doesn,t make good points, she just exposes the level of brainwashing she has gone through. "Look at all the big bad corporations! The GOP is at fault for this liberal decision"!
She is insane.
Dan out.
Scalia and Thomas were dissentors, of course.
yeah, Bush is so bad he even corrupted the extreme liberals on the Supreme Court.
of course.
yeah he did....
and he kills babies too....
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