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markpkessinger

(8,401 posts) Wed Mar 27, 2013, 07:02 PM Mar 2013

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There is a rather bitter irony . . .

. . . in the DOMA arguments, in that some of the very same same conservatives who are so terribly concerned about the unprecedented nature of a case in which a President asks the court for a determinative judicial ruling where it already agrees with a lower court's ruling on the matter, had no problem with the Court's unprecedented action in stopping a recount and appointing a President.

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There is a rather bitter irony . . . (Original Post) markpkessinger Mar 2013 OP

The 5 Republican justices are all rightwing judicial geek tragedy Mar 2013 #1

I think you're looking for Machiavelli. Not irony. Archaic Mar 2013 #2

Not a Single One of Them Will See the Conflict at All dballance Mar 2013 #3

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)

1. The 5 Republican justices are all rightwing judicial

Reply to markpkessinger (Original post)

Wed Mar 27, 2013, 07:03 PM

Mar 2013

activists. They legislate from the bench with only a passing interest in the law.

They offer excuses, not reasoning.

Archaic

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2. I think you're looking for Machiavelli. Not irony.

Reply to markpkessinger (Original post)

Wed Mar 27, 2013, 07:04 PM

Mar 2013

There doesn't have to be consistency, hypocrisy means nothing.

Win at any cost.

The ends justify the means with these schmucks.

dballance

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3. Not a Single One of Them Will See the Conflict at All

Reply to markpkessinger (Original post)

Wed Mar 27, 2013, 07:24 PM

Mar 2013

That was then, this is now. Got to remember the five "conservatives" obviously believe in "results-oriented" decisions.

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