Global Eye -Moot Court - By Chris Floyd

[CHIMO]

Last week, President George W. Bush filled the final vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court -- and right on cue, all the knee-jerk Bush-bashers were up in arms, sputtering the usual objections: Unqualified crony! Right-wing apparatchik! Fawning, groveling Bush Family factotum! Wheel-greasing goon in high-priced threads!

Poor little dissident lambkins. They must be the only people left in the United States who still take the country's governance seriously. For it's obvious that the nation's political elite -- whatever party label they happen to wear -- do not. No ruling class that was actually serious about governing would ever countenance the pair of jokers whom Bush has foisted on what is supposed to be the ultimate guarantor of law in the land. Yet the first bad joke sailed through with bipartisan support and the second is bound to follow. Clearly, this is an Establishment in the throes of nervous breakdown, collapsing in a fit of hysteria-induced giggles while a pack of ruthless thugs loot the store and burn down the house.

For its sheer brazen mockery of the judicial system, Bush's nomination of his personal lawyer, Harriet Miers, to the high court outdoes the installation of hard-right knee-capper John "Jughead" Roberts as chief justice. Jughead spent most of his early career trying to screw the poor and the dark-skinned out of whatever meager rights and protections they had won after centuries of slavery, exclusion and savage repression. He really made his bones, however, with his stalwart service in the Busha Nostra's shutdown of the Florida recount in 2000. For this, Jug was elevated to the federal appeals court, where -- while he was negotiating for the Supreme slot -- he upheld Bush's imperial right to "disappear" anyone on earth into his own rigged system of military tribunals.

But who cares? The wiggly, giggly Democratic "opposition" is already rolling over and playing dead for Miers; in fact, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid actually recommended that Bush appoint this torture-enabling, worker-whipping political fixer to the nation's highest court. The whole American leadership class has given up democratic government for the brutal absurdities of junta rule: cronyism, conquest, corruption and moral collapse.

http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/10/07/120.html

[bemildred]

1. Not going to be just moral collapse.

The Rebublicans have achieved their dream, a government that
doesn't work.

[cassiepriam]

2. A govt that doesn't work, and costs us a fortune.