Hypocrisy in Action, Your Politicians

Listening to this morning’s news, I was disgusted by the mutual hypocrisy of the politicians in Washington this week. The great rule change in the Senate that is about to happen (if it hasn’t yet) is the fault of the animosity of the two parties tward each other, and the shenanigans each party pulled to get one over on the other. The two parties have been at each other’s throat for decades. it’s as bad as some of the centuries-old tribal wars we see on the evening news. When are the American voters going to get sick of it?

A little bit of historey: In the 1960s the democrats got their political activist judges appointed under Lyndon B. Johnson. Starting in the 1970s, these judges helped to circumvent the Congress by legislating from the bench without regard for the will of the American people. Roe v Wade was the first big case that changed the Constitution by judicial fiat, not by Constitutional ammendment as the framers intended. In that case a constitutional “right to privacy” was invented that is not found in any of the articles or amendments. The tactic worked so well that the most liberal branch of the Democratic Party regularly pushed their judges into the queue to be appointed by Democratic presidents. The Congress would not act on the hyper-liberal agenda as the proponents wanted.

In the 1990s, the Republicans began to push back. The battle for control of the judiciary became the main thing that drove the appointment process, and jurisprudence became an afterthought. Today the courts are so politicised you can’t get a decision that isn’t based on party politics. That is why President Trump can’t do anything to keep out terrorists and recruiters for terrorists without some judge issuing an injunction halting it. I expect to see a few dozen nasty terror attacks on U. S. soil by foreign actors soon. In this battle, all other considerations are ignored to further the party cause.

Neal Gorsuch is considered a “strict constructionist” on constitutional issues. That means if the issue was not in the Constitution in any article or amendment, he doesn’t make up a new constitutional right to cover it. The Democrats can’t tell us they object to that. So they trump up the excuse that they don’t like his rulings in favor of corporate interests over private citizens. News flash: Democratic appointed judges are just as likely to support corporate over private interests. It was a precident set in the 1940s, and both party’s judges have expanded it over the years.

As far as I can tell there are only two things wrong with American politics in the Twenty-first Century: Democrats and Republicans.

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