Fundies are wrong if they think Bush is packing the courts with Christian

[Melodybe]

judges, while it may be obvious to us, they need it to be explained to them, Bush is packing the courts with pro-coporatists. He could care less about the RW religious stuff, that is all a front. He really just wants to make sure that average americans have no rights when battling his corporate buddies.

After looking into some of *'s judical nominees the only thing I could seem to find was that many of them have decided big cases for giant corporations.

The New Freedom Commission is one thing to surely get Americans suing, but why should Bush worry when he has filled the courts with people that will favor him and his proposal.

Red necks have been duped again, and all of us suffer, thanks.

[SheepyMcSheepster]

1. this is the first time i have seen this angle looked at

thanks for bringing this up, i hadn't really thought about it that way.

[BamaLefty]

2. Tort Reform

They want to set a limit on what you can recieve in the court of law. Well... if there is no money there... why would the lawyer take the case???

He won't! And we will have no rights and corporate America will have no leash.

[Tux]

3. "Red necks have been duped again, and all of us suffer, thanks."

Paybck time. Next election, lets talk about banning cousin marriage since it is immoral. Rednecks will throw a fit and feel what it is like to have their marriages destroyed. If they want crap, we'll give them crap.

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[Melodybe]

8. Because they are being lied to again by the likes of Frist and Delay

they are being made to think that good christians are being kept from serving on the bench.

If they knew that they are simply screwing themselves over if they ever needed to sue, they wouldn't be so happy.

[catmandu57]

9. The fundies secured the government for this asshole*

Now, after they provided all the manpower, georgie* is blowing them off for his true friends the corporations, have, and have mores. It's kind of like getting sex from someone then ignoring them.
The fundies just aren't going to get their agenda filled after they thought they would.

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[OilemFirchen]

5. Saw on a blog (mediamatters?):

The real scandal is that Bush has appointed several hundred atheists!

(Subtle one, so don't bite my head off...)

[Roland99]

6. I've said it before. Look at the judges up for nomination...

They have links to the * family, Rove, and other business interests. These people bring money into the * campaign or are good for business friends of the * family.

[ComerPerro]

7. Everybody on the right talks about Congress' "responsibility" to vote

on Bush's judges, "up or down".

But what about Bush's responsibility as President to nominate qualified individuals who won't simply be a mouthpiece for one political philosophy?

[mwb970]

10. Why then are the Fristians up in arms?

Were the other 210 judges or whatever it is all pro-choice? I don't get why the Fristians support corporate fascism. It seems unrelated to their cause, which seems to be Armageddon and the End Times (great name for a rock band eh?).

[Roland99]

13. Because all they see are the two main wedge issues: Abortion/Gay Marriage

[wakeme2008]

12. Talk to Texans

Bush packed the Texas Supreme Court with "Insurance Companies always win" Judges.

[lastliberalintexas]

15. Not quite

While our state SC is very conservative, some even right wing, it was not packed by Bush. Judges are elected in Texas, and thus the people who voted packed the courts with right wingers.

But yes, the last report I saw said that plaintiffs lost more than 95% of the cases in which the Texas Supreme Court rendered an opinion. That was from 2000 I think, but I doubt those figures have changed much, if at all.

[wakeme2008]

17. I could be wrong

but I understood, the governor appoints new Judges to the SC and then they are voted on later if they should be kept in office.

Is this wrong?

[lastliberalintexas]

19. No, we don't have a retention system

We only have appointments in case of a vacancy- as in a resignation from a sitting justice/judge before the term is up. Bush did get to appoint to fill a few vacancies to the SC, but again, it was only because a vacancy was somehow created. That isn't the usual procedure.

Instead, we have a direct election system in which every judge in Texas, from Justice of the Peace to Supreme Court, is chosen by the voters from their first term to last. So it's the "people" who've given us the right wing judges we oh so proudly display for the world. :)

[tex-wyo-dem]

14. Great point!

Bushco is playing the fundies like a fiddle, getting them all fired up over religiosity and getting them to do a lot of the dirty work and make noise. In reality, their beholden to corporatists only.

[lastliberalintexas]

16. Most of them are of the Christo-Fascist bent

as well as Corporatist. Those are not mutually exclusive clubs, you know. Scalia is the prototype of what the Bush administration wants in a judge- pro-corporate, pro-federalist, anti-privacy, anti-individual rights, and anti-woman.

Scalia never met a corporate regulation he liked, never has seen a plaintiff with standing to sue, and has never even considered that a suspect could be innocent of the crime charged. No thinking required in that kind of black and white, no gray (matter) world.

[undeterred]

18. You're right. Bush is FOR multi-national corporations gaining in weatlh.

He is not FOR America or born-again Christians or the sacredness of all life or the expansion of democracy.

And he's not AGAINST terrorism as long as he can use it to his own advantage in setting policy.

Bush is FOR multi-national corporations gaining in wealth. That's all.