Monday, July 02, 2012

Pundits Putting Lipstick on a Pig


Pundits Putting Lipstick on a Pig

           
Putting lipstick on a pig isn't very good for the pig, as Charles Krauthammer and other right-wing pundits and assorted Romney-ites have been doing to Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts’ ruling on Obamacare. According to them, Roberts didn't really give the Obama administration a critical strategic victory. Rather, they say, he masterfully circumcised the commerce clause rationale from the mandate provision and replaced it with a taxation explanation, thereby preserving the integrity and reputation of an impartial Supreme Court, not susceptible to political considerations.

Say it ain't so, Joe, I mean Chuck. Are you saying that rather than using the constitutionality of the law and  the validity of its opponents' arguments as a basis for a Supreme Court decision, Roberts instead made his decision based on what was in his best interests for the history books? Don't they realize that were it true, he would be making a mockery out of the Supreme Court, leaving a far worse legacy, and establishing doubt about the validity of future rulings by the Supremes? Don’t the pig-prettying pundits realize that, in offering up that line of reasoning and conjecture, they're making a mockery of themselves?

SURPRISE, SURPRISE! IT’S ALL ABOUT THEM.


               SURPRISE, SURPRISE! IT’S ALL ABOUT THEM.

Let me get this straight. The POTUS has waited until reelection time to take actions that will bring gay and Hispanic voters to vote for him. He has waited until election time to push hard on a job creating transportation bill after an extended period of time of doing very little  to improve the economy since the great recession/depression was handed off to him. 

The intransigent, recalcitrant Republicans have dragged their feet and obfuscated right up until election time and have waited until the last possible minute to approve the transportation bill that will create nearly 3,000,000 jobs for desperate Americans out of work and keep the student interest rate on loans from being doubled so that they can be seen in a more favorable light by the unemployed and students.

There can be no greater examples than these that both political parties no longer have an interest in doing what's right for the American people even in a crisis> They  are only going to act when it's in their best interests to keep the power they have or to take it away from the other guys.