Activist Judges

According to this, Republicans are going to force the issue on the so-called "nuclear option" for ending the filibuster (is it just me, or do the names of these hack tactics become more macho in directly inverse proportion to the dicklessness of the people proposing them?). All I can hear is that comedian channelling Christopher Lloyd doing Rev. Jim doing the Klingon from Star Trek 3: "Captain Kirk...you don't wanna give me the Genesis Device...okey-doke!"

Well, fuck it. Shut 'em down. If even one Democrat keeps his seat in the next election, he (or Hillary) can all but freeze the fucking Senate anyway, through procedural wonkery. Let the Republicans have at it--they have nothing to gain and a world to lose.

On the other hand, this complicates matters somewhat for those of us trying to figure out what the flying fuck Republicans are doing. Nothing they do seems to make any logical sense, and I'm convinced they don't have any plan at all except to wake up, locate today's enemy, and go after it. Tomorrow they'll get up and pick a new, possibly unrelated enemy, and off they'll go again. No thought required; no need to reconcile yesterday with today. They don't after all, live in the "reality-based" community. These simpletons have convinced themselves that they are the visionaries, and they are the masters of the universe.

So, if I get this correctly, the Right has just spent a few weeks denouncing federal judges and calling for strict oversight of them and limits to their power. And now, Bill Frist wants to simultaneously marginalize the minority party (which won't always be the Democrats, Billy boy!) and remove some of the oversight of federal judges he seemed to have a hard-on for just yesterday, to wit: the ability of any reasonable person to block bad judges from getting lifetime appointments.

Does this man, or his party, know how utterly stupid that is? Do they care? Have their drooling, clapping trained-seal supporters given them any reason to fear for their jobs? I'm going with "no" on all three.

I've said it before but it bears repeating: Fuck 'em all. Fuck 'em 'till they're dead.