Who we really need to thank for the oil spill in the gulf ..... Picture

[Botany]

(5 of the 9 are at fault the other 4 did the right thing)
Judges Rehnquist, Thomas, Scalia, O'Connor, and Kennedy. No bush v Gore case would have given us President
Gore and then there would have no Dick Cheney energy task force meetings to get rid of unneeded regulation
such as sonic shut off valves on deep water oil wells.

And by the way while we are at it you can also add to the list:

No 9/11
No war in Afghanistan
No war in Iraq
No spying
No torture
No Ohio 2004
No Val Plame outing (we will never know the # of dead because of that)
No egging on Israel to go into southern Lebanon
No sitting around as the economy goes into the tank
No massive kill of wild run western salmon

Please remember this because we need to keep and expand the democratic majorities this fall because the costs of
letting those assholes back into power is just too great and we need to get more judges at all levels of the federal
judiciary.

BTW I hope Sandy Day O'Connor never has a restful sleep for the rest of her life because she knew exactly what
she was doing in bush v Gore.

[scheming daemons]

1. You should have not included the 4 liberal justices in the picture

They did the right thing.

[Botany]

3. Thanx

n/t I did what I could w/ an edit

[66 dmhlt]

21. This SCOTUS portrait might help ...

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

22. perfect.

[NoSheep]

26. nice

[disndat]

27. EXACTLY!! nt.

[ensho]

2. true

nt

[gateley]

4. You are so right. nt

[glinda]

5. K&R n/t

[donheld]

6. Those 5 have a lot of blood on their hands. If only they cared.

[lonestarnot]

7. Wonder how many people have pissed on the Rehnquist grave.

[Rex]

8. I'd say they are the most powerful, non-elected group of people in history.

I hope they understand that what happen in 2000 cannot be undone.

[FailureToCommunicate]

9. Nine reasons why VOTING matters...

[liberation]

11. How so?

The fact that the US has an electoral college, making the election of a president an indirect process, compounded with the fat that a supreme court made of unelected officials can decide the outcome of any election... would lead me to believe that voting at a systemic level means squat in this country.

[FailureToCommunicate]

25. Yes, sadly, you are correct. I meant only that

folks of our political stripe (D) shouldn't let their well justified cynicism keep them from voting because -despite what you reasoned (with which I agree)- Democrat presidents tend to nominate slightly more liberal Justices than Republican presidents do.

[JDPriestly]

10. I blame Sandra Day O'Connor. Before Bush v. Gore, I thought a lot of her.

As a friend once said, O'Connor repeatedly argued for the right thing in her decisions and then voted the wrong way. But she was the crucial swing vote on some really important decisions like Casey (basic abortion right protected).

Bush v. Gore was a strictly political decision. The Supreme Court should have sent the case back to the state court. With that decision, the Rehnquist/O'Connor Court showed just how the Court could act as a political tool rather than the conscience of the nation.

Of all of the things that have happened to this country since the beginning of the 20th century, Bush v. Gore was the absolute worst.

I shall always believe that O'Connor knew better and just thought to herself, "What the heck? Forget right and wrong, forget legal precedent. I'm doing what I want just this once. I want to leave the Court and I want a Republican president to replace me."

Callous, irresponsible, immoral, politically corrupt, that is what that decision was. And now look at the mess we have.

I do not believe that God punishes us for our sins. I think that we make stupid decisions that amount to "sins," and in making those decisions punish ourselves. O'Connor's decision on Bush v. Gore was really stupid. I have no doubt that she is being punished for it.

Why do I pick on O'Connor? Because she was the most independent of the Republican Justices on the Court when Bush v. Gore was decided. Had she made a responsible choice, a choice dictated by her conscience and not by her personal and political biases, Gore might have been the president, and the whole country would be better off today. Shame on you, Sandra Day O'Connor.

[Botany]

14. She knew what she was doing was wrong by her written decision (?) as per

..... bush v Gore because she wrote that the case (b v G) could not be used to "set law"
in any past or future cases that came before the Supreme Court. I have a family
member who knows her a little and always says that you can't define Sandy by just
that one vote to which I say everybody only talks about John Wilkes Booth for that
only little thing in April 1865 and forgets what a good actor he was.

[irishlover]

17. I have always blamed O'Connor for this current state of affairs

and you'd have thought I was a blasphemous fool, even today. She was "one of us"; surely she had constitutional knowledge we didn't. I didn't buy it for a second. I knew she had her hands full with personal issues but this decision of hers was unconscionable and still completely mysterious to me. I heard her awhile back on Diane Rheem, who fawned all over her and let her off the hook on the Bush V Gore decision. Totally out of character for Rheem and I almost swerved off 95 hearing it. Surely she must be regretting that vote. There can't be that much delusional capability in one human brain (except for W). We really need civics education back in our schools.

[Capitalocracy]

12. We have a name for this here in South America

We have a name in South America for when war profiteers take over the election system, influence the courts to go along with them, and install a leader who systematically dismantles the country, takes away civil rights, and lines their friends' pockets with public money. It's called a coup.

[Raster]

19. And a coup is was. A bloodless coup by the rich and powerful. They did not need weapons or troops.

They had the republican-majority Supreme Court of the United States to do their dirty work. Coup. No better word.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

13. DICK CHENEY!!!

[Art_from_Ark]

15. Agreed

The 5 turds on the Supreme Court who voted for Idiot Boy despite the overwhelming evidence that Al Gore was the rightful winner of the 2000 election are indeed responsible, indirectly or otherwise, for all the shite that hit the fan from that point until at least January 20, 2009.

[HughBeaumont]

16. "Ms 5-4" sleeps well. Believe me.

Republican pigs are chin-up, steadfast, unwavering and non-caring when it comes to looking back on their damaging decisions and reflecting whether or not they were right or wrong. She sleeps quite well. Want to know why? Because she does not CARE. You know how a CEO, with giant elephant balls, "expresses regret" over firing thousands of employees? Same thing here, only it's a little worse than that.

She's never ONCE, IIRC, apologized or expressed even a SMIDGEN of regret for her decision.

I refuse to honor any accomplishment, precedent or whatever else resulted from her actions. The Little Boots Failure Fuhrer and his careless whiskey-throttle reign of error is HER legacy. She did not have to do this, but she did anyway.

She'll always be "Ms. 5-4". She'll always be a member of "The Filthy Five". Sandy Day isn't one of us. She's one of the CEO elite. She's a "Have More".

She took the path of least resistance and put an incompetent fortunate son in a place where he was vastly underqualified and overzealous. It's because of her decision that this country is going to have to undergo YEARS of correction to achieve almost complete reversal of the Bewsh II disaster (barring another Republican president, God Forbid, whereupon progress will come to a screeching HALT).

[Raster]

20. I could not agree more with your post. O'Connor *should* be remembered for her accomplishments, and

...for her crucial "4-5" role, but now the first woman to sit on the SCOTUS will be remembered for her participation in the grossly illegal Selection 2000 coup that ignored the rightful will of the people and installed The Machine's hand-picked candidates.
:kick:

[disndat]

34. I could be wrong

But I think O'Connor did express a "Smidgen" of regret on her 5-4 decision after she had retired. Maybe some smart DUer can confirm this. Also, I think John Yoo was one of her law clerks at the time after serving the same position for Clarence Thomas. On top of that she came out of Stanford U. law school where they produce women tools for the RW like she and Condoleezza Rice.

[pundaint]

18. I think that all nine share guilt. There isn't a one of them who could possibly not have

understood the questionable legal basis for this decision. The four no's could have stood up for an honest decision and shamed one of the usurpers to switch their vote.

[digidigido]

30. I'm not sure Thomas is conscious enough of a person to understand

[disndat]

36. Souter did expressed disgust and

wrote a very forceful opinion against the majority. He never recovered his disillusion with the Court and the main reason why he retired early.

[pundaint]

37. This was the kind of thing that required jumping on tables about. Changing the form of government

from a democracy to presidential selection bay a panel of nine is way bigger than the Court. They removed People from the elective process. Every one of them should be removed from their position because of their traitorous action.

Public comments after the stealing of the Presidency don't cut it, the stealing of our form of government warranted a loud public dissension in advance of the announcement.

[2Design]

23. evitl at the top n/t

[OnyxCollie]

24. Nailed it.

It only takes two for a conspiracy. Five just to make sure...

[KansDem]

28. Don't forget Katrina

President Al Gore would have truly understood the ramifications of Katrina and acted accordingly. He has pointed out for years how global-climate change is resulting in more massive and damaging storms. I have no doubt he would have put someone competent in charge.

[hiphopnation]

29. brings back memories of the Supreme Clowns

[judesedit]

31. I'm with you all the way on that. Keep this floating around so people get it through their heads.

As for dear Sandy. She's living with her decision every day until her last. And I actually think it will follow her eternally. That decision cost zillions if you add the unaccounted for funding for wars, taxcuts for the wealthy, interest owed to China, lost retirement savings, the lives, the limbs, the rights, the respect, the jobs, the health and happiness of countless Americans. I wonder how she feels every time a father kills his children, his wife, then himself due to the fact he can no longer support them. (See Job loss comparison of Bush and Obama).

And not only O'Connor. Include the other 4 members of the SCOTUS who voted along with her. And let's not forget the Congressional members that allowed it to continue. Bushco was sooooo incompetent, the so-called "checkers and balancers" should have impeached those imposters almost immediately. They are all responsible for this. But they were thinking about "number uno", themselves and their fat pockets. Disgusting.

[spanone]

32. also starring....

+

[Chipper Chat]

33. Amen!

And proud to cast the 100th recommendation.

[goforit]

35. Here here!!! I keep reminding my friends. Funny how people forget so easily.

In one mallet stroke....they destroyed this country and it's Constitution!!!!