Reply #27: pardon my french, but that's extraordinarily frickin' naive [View All]

[Cats Against Frist]

I'm all for fighting the dark side in creative ways -- including going as far as to, basically, disband the federal government (I'm a libertarian), -- HOWEVER, even as radical as I am, I DO NOT think that judges are the place for the "let it all come crashing down" philosophy to work. In fact, it's the LAST and ONLY place that one should not "give ground" to the fascists.

Last time I checked, I don't recall where it said in the Constitution that these judges HAVE to be appointed. The fillibuster, in terms of the Democratic usage of it, is SERVING its appropriate function: an internal check on legislative power. Without that check, the fascists with the 3 percent "win," can tyranny over the other 48 percent of the fucking country.

This idea that expidency of judicial confirmation has some kind of "moral value," is just another completely made-up construct, on behalf of the "logical fallacy brigade."

The fillibuster is providing a check -- and there is no better place for it, when faced with potential mob rule, under potential theocrats and corporatists -- which goes against the principles on which this nation was founded.