What a week! First the uproar over the Confederate flag in the wake of the shootings in Charleston SC. Then the black robed dudes and dudettes said that Obamacare is still OK. Then the earth shattering ruling on gay marriage. Looks like God will move America from his “favorites” list to the “you’re in trouble now” list. Or so some on the right will say.
I’m amazed at all the hyperbole that has been spouting over these many years about how bad things will be if they don’t get their way on this or that issue. I remember after the Affordable Care Act was passed, the crazies on the right said it was going to wreck the economy and it’ll be a disaster. Doesn’t seem to be the case, as far I can tell. Maybe I’m missing something here.
Anyway the GOP clowns took the opportunity to showcase their stupidity with all this gay marriage stuff. For example Mike Huckabee said “I will not acquiesce to an imperial court any more than our Founders acquiesced to an imperial British monarch. We must resist and reject judicial tyranny, not retreat." So is the Supreme Court like the Imperial Storm troopers from Star Wars?
From Ted Cruz - “Today [Friday] is some of the darkest 24 hours in our nation’s history,” Cruz said without any regard to subject verb agreement. “Yesterday and today were both naked and shameless judicial activism.” Of course for the likes of Ted Cruz the judiciary is OK until they rule against them. Then it’s judicial activism.
Louie Gohmert, that intellectual powerhouse, completely freaked out, recommending that people flee the country since that's what God did. “It is a tragic and ominous day for the United States when a decision by five unelected justices of the U.S. Supreme Court blatantly violates the law in order to destroy the foundational building block for society provided by Nature and Nature’s God — that was stated as divine law by Moses and Jesus,” Louie said. He added “that it is God who has been the source of this nation’s unfathomable blessings.” Except that God forgot to provide water to the western U.S.
Bobby (party of stupid) Jindal said that "If we want to save some money lets just get rid of the court." And why not eliminate the IRS and EPA and Department of Defense and some others while we are at it? We’d save a boat load of cash. We’d be in deep doodoo but what the heck!
Of course he couldn’t help but trot out the old saw by the Christian right of an "all out assault" on Christians' religious liberty. Poor babies! You know you still have all those tax free churches and you can still go to church every Sunday and do the crazy stuff you always do. And you still own about 80 to 90 percent of Congress. Religious liberty? How about non-religious liberty? Freedom “of” religion is also freedom “from” religion. What is really happening is that the Christians are loosing their privileged positions because more and more Americans are tired of them bitching all the time.
Of course all this hyperbole was to be expected from right wingers. The good part maybe that with all the crazy talk they spew is giving more Americans reasons to put them in the delete bucket of politics.
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