The Nuts in Charge of the Asylum
Insanity and dementia are very serious issues. You should never make light of them – unless, of course, you’ve gone through the looking glass and found yourself living in a country where some crazy son of a bitch has somehow become president.
And if the people around the president have also lost their grip on reality, and if the country’s mainstream channels of information have been playing out infantile fantasies, believing everything they’re told and dutifully reciting their fairy tales, grateful for the ensuing lollipops – well, then you might want to count your marbles.
New Jersey’s state constitution prohibits any “idiot or insane person†from voting in an election – but not from running in one.
Nor can they control who votes in Congress or who gets to veto the laws Congress passes. Those awesome personages could ALL be crazy, because there are five votes on the Supreme Court – Sneezy, Grumpy, Dopey, Sleepy, and Doc — ready to declare that whatever a psychotic (Republican) president may do shall henceforth be deemed sane and considered to be the law of the land.
In New Jersey three years ago, a nursing home employee won a seat on her county Democratic committee when absentee ballots cast by residents of the nursing home provided the margin of victory. When that fact came out, she stepped down. But why?
Is that any crazier than the way George Bush was installed in the White House after losing the 2000 election?
Eighteen states prohibit voting by people who are non compos mentis, which is Latin for voting to re-elect George Bush even after you saw what he did in his first term. A like number bar voting by people who have been officially determined to lack competence, which is what Alberto Gonzales was pressuring all the fired U.S. attorneys to do in the case of registered voters deemed likely to vote Democratic..
Insanity is defined as a psychiatric disorder entailing a chronic lack of reason or foresight; and while George Bush ponders his legacy, his lack of reason and foresight has led a number of historians to declare his presidency the worst ever. His best hope now is that the judgment of history will be, “not guilty by reason of insanity.â€
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Unfortunately, the lasting legacy of the Bush
administration will be the Supreme Court justices
he was able to appoint. They will be around long
after he has left office…
Comment by Lee — June 24, 2007 @ 10:14 pm
Alas, probably so. But a rising majority of Democrats in Congress (assuming we get that done) could nullify or neutralize a great deal of the court’s damage. Also, conservatives have been known to change their stripes on the court; and although none is showing signs of enlightenment at the moment, I wouldn’t rule that out entirely. One thing that may be giving them pause is the runaway scrapping of the Constitution now unfurling in the exposure of administration misdeeds.
Comment by Al — June 25, 2007 @ 9:57 pm
Indeed, one wonders what they think of Cheney’s
pronouncement that he is not part of the executive
branch.
Comment by Lee — June 26, 2007 @ 7:00 pm
Exactly. And the right-wingers on the court have to realize that if they sanction extremes in the power of the executive branch, those powers will be there for Hillary or Barrack or any other future Democratic president to use and/or abuse. If it were me, I’d shut off the air conditioning in the chambers of right-wing justices.
Comment by Al — June 27, 2007 @ 5:26 pm