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Black robes can't hide the truth
Albany Times Union ^ | April 3, 2012 | By MAUREEN DOWD

Posted on 04/04/2012 6:24:43 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

WASHINGTON — How dare President Barack Obama brush back the Supreme Court like that?

Has this former constitutional law instructor no respect for our venerable system of checks and balances? Nah. And why should he?

This court, cosseted behind white marble pillars, out of reach of TV, accountable to no one once they give the last word, is well on its way to becoming the one of the most divisive in modern U.S. history.

It has squandered even the semi-illusion that it is the unbiased, honest guardian of the Constitution. It is run by hacks dressed up in black robes.

The Supreme Court mirrors the setup on Fox News: There are liberals who make arguments, but they are foils, in the background, trying to get in a few words before the commercials. Just as in the Senate's shameful Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings, the liberals on the court focus on process and the conservatives focus on results. John Roberts Jr.'s benign beige facade is deceiving; he's a crimson partisan, simply more cloaked than the ideologically rigid and often venomous Scalia.

Now conservative justices may throw Obama's hard-won law out of those fine big windows. In 2005, Scalia was endorsing a broad interpretation of the clauses now under scrutiny from the majority. Scalia, Roberts, Thomas and Samuel Alito feel it is the province and duty of the judiciary to say "what the law is, not what it should be." But the majority's political motives are as naked as a strip-search.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dowd; failure; maureendowd; meninblack; obamacare; obamathreatensscotus; pantiesinabunch; scotus
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1 posted on 04/04/2012 6:24:58 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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OBAMA CONSTITUTION4DUMMIES.JPG, U.S. CONSTITUTION FOR DUMMIES
2 posted on 04/04/2012 6:27:29 AM PDT by FrankR
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accountable to no one once they give the last word

The SC doesn’t have the last word (or at least shouldn’t) The last word belongs to the people.

And thank you for the amazing pic. I think I recognize her but can’t think of the name. A true beauty!!


3 posted on 04/04/2012 6:29:17 AM PDT by rfreedom4u (Just because someone thinks it's a good idea doesn't make it legal.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
MO is a bitter spinster who clings to her Liberal ideology for comfort and companionship. Single women often want to know there is someone/something taking care of them. In the case of Liberals, if there is no man then the Government is the caretaker. ‘Nuff said.
4 posted on 04/04/2012 6:30:10 AM PDT by originalbuckeye
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Dowd is so dowdy. Her bitterness is eating her up inside, making her the perfect foil for the global Marxist planners. What a piece of sour work she proves herself to be. She hates America so much, why doesn’t the beotch move to a socialist paradise? ... Because bitter fools like her must trash the good to feel they are alive. What a nasty piece of work she is now. I’m so glad Michael Douglas didn’t stay in her web.


5 posted on 04/04/2012 6:30:10 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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This silly PMSing harpy doesn’t have a problem with those black robes when their ruling favors her precious liberals.


6 posted on 04/04/2012 6:30:34 AM PDT by NRA1995 (I'll cling to my religion and guns till they're pried from my cold dead fingers!)
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This court is well on its way to becoming the one of the most divisive in modern U.S. history.

Ah, yes. Whenever I'm in need of the unvarnished truth regarding U.S. history I turn to Maureen Dowd.

7 posted on 04/04/2012 6:31:25 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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Aw, come on.

Tell how you REALLY feel, Maureen.


8 posted on 04/04/2012 6:31:41 AM PDT by alloysteel (It is hard to get a man to understand, when his pay depends upon his not understanding something.)
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Obama and the Dowd are channeling the ghost of Gov. George Wallace who defied the USCOTUS.

Seems Obama has more in common with a 60’s white separatist than the mainstream of American thought.


10 posted on 04/04/2012 6:32:19 AM PDT by OpusatFR
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But the majority's political motives are as naked as a strip-search.

Dowd, you stupid cow, those words apply directly to the partisan bare majority which passed this unconstitutional POS by the foulest means seen in Congress since Reconstruction. Never forget "We have to pass it to see what's in it" ,and don't forget "I won".
11 posted on 04/04/2012 6:32:25 AM PDT by mrsmel
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Dowd seems a bit peeved! Most be over that “Roe vs Wade”
application of the law.

Oh, wait...........


12 posted on 04/04/2012 6:32:44 AM PDT by Panzerlied ("We shall never surrender!")
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You know, I’m really not a fan of Maureen Dawd.


13 posted on 04/04/2012 6:32:44 AM PDT by AtlasStalled
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The Maureen Dowd Rule: All reposts of a Maureen Dowd article SHALL be accompanied by a photograph of Catherine Zeta-Jones.


14 posted on 04/04/2012 6:32:57 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations - The acronym explains the science.)
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To: FrankR

Nine people in black robes.

Another one of your creations spot on!


15 posted on 04/04/2012 6:33:25 AM PDT by presently no screen name
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the liberals on the court focus on process and the conservatives focus on results.

So, Maureen, what I hear you saying is that Conservatives on the court focus on process and the Liberals focus on results.

We have the decoder ring, you know. We know that the opposite of what you say is what you really mean.

16 posted on 04/04/2012 6:33:28 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Like Emmett Till, Trayvon Martin has become simply a stick with which to beat Whites.)
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To: rfreedom4u

For liberals, history always begins this morning.


17 posted on 04/04/2012 6:33:47 AM PDT by mrsmel
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Could have used a hurl alert.


18 posted on 04/04/2012 6:34:18 AM PDT by greatvikingone
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Gee Affirmative Action and ROVE V. WADE were really unifying decisions. < /sarc >


19 posted on 04/04/2012 6:34:54 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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A 'Barf Alert' would have been nice................
20 posted on 04/04/2012 6:35:14 AM PDT by Red Badger (Think logically. Act normally.................)
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