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Friday, June 03, 2005
"A lawsuit a day keeps the liberals at bay!"
That advice today was so eloquently offered to young Republican activists by UNC-Wilmington Professor Mike Adams at a leadership seminar in Rayburn HOB. This suggestion comes as his solution to the abundance of on-campus progressive organizations gaining official recognition or support from colleges and universities.Once again this points out a fundamental hypocrisy among today's conservatives--while decrying "judicial activism" of what they consider a liberal judiciary they concurrently push for an activist jurisprudence in favor of their political positions. Finding gay marriage to be a protected right is supposedly "extremist activism", while vacating years of legal precedence in order to prolong the life of a single person in a vegitative state is not.
This of course all leads back to the lingering fight over the next Supreme Court nominee. A piece in today's Sun points out President Bush's plan to place nominees of "a certain temperament" on the Court. Translation: those who won't require John Cornyn and Tom DeLay to whip them in order to take the far-right's position on any issue.
I still get miffed by the hypocrisy of the extreme right, I suppose I'm just a bit more used to it now.
Docciavelli 12:15 PM