Jim Hightower: Corporatist Supreme Ct Cabal Joined Forces w/ Right Wing to Sell our democracy

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Hightower Lowdown / By Jim Hightower

How a Corporatist Supreme Court Cabal Joined Forces With Right-Wing and Kochs to Quietly Sell Out Our Democracy
Corrupt, right-wing Supreme Court justices are abusing their power, fraternizing with the Koch brothers and fixing elections (among other horrors).

August 5, 2011 |


Bill Watterson is Mark Twain--with a drawing pen. He is a master cartoonist, but also a sharp-witted observer of the absurd, with an impish sense of humor. From 1985-1995, Watterson penned "Calvin and Hobbes," the truly marvelous comic strip that featured six-year-old Calvin and his stuffed tiger Hobbes. In Calvin's inventive and iconoclastic mind, Hobbes was a genuine tiger (and his best friend) and they shared boundless adventures that challenged conventional thinking and defied authority, often crashing right through the prescribed social order of the 'real' world.

A recurring theme in the strip was a two-player baseball competition in which both the kid and the tiger simply made up the rules as they went. In one strip, Calvin has hit the ball thrown by Hobbes, and he's scampering toward home plate:

Calvin: Ha Ha! A home run!

Hobbes: You didn't touch all the bases!

Calvin: I did, too.

Hobbes: No, you didn't. You didn't touch seventh base.

Calvin: Yes, I did! I touched the water barrel right after the front porch.

Hobbes: That's not seventh base. That's twelfth base!

Calvin: I thought the garage door was twelfth.

Hobbes: The garage door is twenty-third base. You touched them all out of order, and you didn't touch the secret base.

Calvin: The secret base?? What's the secret base?!

Hobbes: I can't tell you. It's a secret.

That exchange between a six-year-old and a stuffed tiger pretty well sums up the nonsensical political gamesmanship being played out today by the five-man lineup of corporatists on the Supreme Court: Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Samuel Alito, Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, and Clarence Thomas. They are on an unrestrained ideological tear, making up their own rules to score big points for corporate power. Reasoning? Try twenty-third base! Precedent? Throw it out! History? Rewrite it! The Constitution? Slide by it! Judicial restraint? Only for liberals! Logic? That's a secret! The rule of law? The law is us! .............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/story/151889/how_a_corporatist_supreme_court_cabal_joined_forces_with_right-wing_and_kochs_to_quietly_sell_out_our_democracy/

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1. Finally! An excellent article exposing the problems with SCOTUS. Don't miss

the comments.

We need to hammer and hammer on this subject, as well as all the other areas where the Kochs are involved. Wisconsin is the first priority and then eradicate the rest. The Kochs are a cancer that may have already spread its "fingers" into too many parts of our government, but we can try to clean it out.