The Goat Pen

Bklyn wrote:eCat

May be good for the young one...

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• Establishment/"Can Conceivably Beat Obama" - Romney
  Small Govt Purists - Paul
  Evangelicals - Santorum, Bachman, Perry, Newt

Bklyn wrote:All I know is Tim Pawlenty is kicking the shit out of himself right about now. I've affectionately dubbed it "premature evacuation."

On Sunday, I wrote this piece criticizing United States Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts for his mealy-mouthed annual report on the judiciary. The chief justice copped out, I believe, by failing to even mention the fact that lower-court federal judges all over the country are sorely understaffed (because of Republican intransigence in the Senate) and under unwarranted, and sometimes just plain crazy, political attack from conservative politicians.

I also found it odd, though I didn't mention it Sunday, that the chief justice did not mention the late John M. Roll, the Chief District Judge of Arizona, who was shot and killed in Tucson last January -- literally in the line of duty -- in the attack on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Judge Roll was in line to talk to Rep. Giffords at the supermarket that day to discuss the "judicial emergency" in Arizona caused by too few federal judges trying to handle too many cases.

Democrats and some Republicans and Independents with whom I’ve spoken here in Waukesha County have told me the same thing. They don’t want be “of the corporations, by the corporations and for the corporations.” They want a return to Democracy. And as Rep. Barca reiterated this morning, the “hallmark of American and Wisconsin Democracy” is first amendment rights. They want those back, too.

sardis wrote:AugustWest?

http://obsdailyviews.blogspot.com/2012/ ... ctive.html