Joshua Holland: Harriet Miers: A Sucker Punch
Still travelling down my main road of concern, the buying and selling of America by International Corporate Interests and their lackeys in Congress and the White House, comes this article by Joshua Holland at AlterNet. It's his take on the Miers nomination, and his belief that, while everybody is busy talking about Roe vs Wade, it has never been the administrations intent to appoint anyone who would actually overturn that ruling. In fact he states, and I agree with him here, that overturning Roe is one of the last things this administration would want. It would signal the end of the GOP as a political entitiy. What they do want, and what they are about to accomplish while flying under cover of all the yelling currently provided by those political suckers, the social conservatives and religous right, is the complete packing of the court to the benefit of Corporate America.LINK
posted by Steve Gaghagen at
2:30 PM
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While I do have drastically different views of the world, politics and business, I have to agree with the statements that you and Joshua make.
The greatest strength of the Republican party has been the uncanny ability to rally support over the basic platform issues of our day which are namely economics and abortion. Within the past 5 years, we've seen the Republican party erode into something that is beginning to resemble the Democratic party - an unfocused platform with too many divergent views to gain a solid foothold in federal government. The current administration's economic policies have been nothing short of mixed at best, severely lacking at most.
While the tax cuts Bush made were a good thing, growing the federal government and spending like there is no tomorrow, war and all, is so drastically different than what the Republicans once stood for.
Abortion seems to be the only issue left for Republicans to rally around and sadly, Joshua's point seems to be dead on - if Bush openly recruited a posse of Supreme Court judges that were to overturn RvW, the Republican standard would have to be lowered.
" Still travelling down my main road of concern, the buying and selling of America by International Corporate Interests" -
While it is easy to crap on corporate America, foreign interest and all, you must remember that it is the business that drives innovation. It is business that creates wealth. It is business, our ability to exchange products and services, that is our method to increase prosperity.
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