So the rich pay less taxes on the money they make, but are to get less from Social Security than they put in? That’s a stealth tax, cleverly engineered by the GOP, and guaranteed to breed resentment over time.
Senator Frist will only be “fully justified” in bringing the rule change to the floor if the reader willfully ignores the inconvenient fact about, as Senator Dole describes it, the ‘bi-partisan pedigree’ of past handling of judicial nominations.
It’s no accident that the incumbency rate of Congress is on a par with the Chinese Communist party.
And so the pride of the powerful becomes open, “…three weeks of looking like fools in the eyes of the world.”–Scalia, on Bush v Gore.
If the reader’s “measure of sanity” is the willingness to allow those unable, or unwilling, to avail themselves of the GOP’s “bill of opportunities” to simply fall by the wayside sight unseen, then their America is far different from FDR’s.
I find it fascinating how conservatives can, in one breath, talk easily about “central tenets of a free society” when refusing to engage in activities on the basis of their moral or religious beliefs
Why is David Brooks telling me what I will think about the UN?
Such a legal compromise will itself be seen as immoral, heightening a disrespect for the law on religious grounds.
So, its OK to risk having [terrorists] spend money on killing machines by not allowing more than 24 hours to cross-reference gun-purchase records with terror-suspect databases?
In the world of Representative Delay, might does indeed make right.
We fear that the world will ask more of us than we’re willing to give. We fear that the world might be more complex than we care to comprehend.
The more ‘pure’ and ‘fundamental’ a political theory or philosophy, the more likely it will contain the seeds of its demise in actual implementation.
It may make the living sleep easier, but does nothing for the one doing the suffering.
