It’s ironic that Red State is simultaneously running articles that mock the Chicago chief of police’s interpretation of the Second Amendment and the governor of New York’s interpretation of what the Supreme Court permits in abortion law. It’s true that in 2010 the Supreme Court ruled, in a 5-4 decision, that people have an individual right to bear arms that cannot be superseded by state or local laws. It’s also true that the Supreme Court ruled in a 7-2 decision forty years ago that women can get a late-term abortion if the baby isn’t viable or the woman’s life or health is jeopardized.
It’s okay to disagree with Supreme Court decisions. But you can’t argue, in one case, that the argument is settled because the Court has ruled, and then argue in the other case that the argument is very much alive despite the fact that the Supreme Court has ruled.
You say that the Constitution doesn’t protect a women’s right to make reproductive decisions that have a bearing on her health. I say that the Constitution only gives you the right to own a smooth-bore musket. We can have a debate about those issues, but we aren’t allowed to appeal to the Court’s authority. The whole premise is that we both think the Court is fallible.
Tsk, tsk, Boo, bringing logic to a gun fight.
Even if this is a vicious hit piece, it was well done.
wow, he should wait for the whatever he took to wear off before walking his dog
Alec Baldwin often displays what seems like decent perspective and a great sense of humor about himself. On Conan O’Brian’s show around 2003-2004 Alec went on a lengthy anti-Bush rant, and Conan reached behind the couch and grabbed Baldwin a paper bag to help slow down his “hyperventilation”; Alec gave it a good, broad comic take. Obviously a great set-up bit, and it suggested he’s well-adjusted. But then there’s plenty of these type of anecdotes as well; he’s a complicated dude. Oh, well.
OTOH, this hypocrisy you point out in your original post is something that’s a screamingly obvious aspect of the GOP 24/365 these days. As long as the press doesn’t call them out on this consistently, it’s equivalent to the tree that fell in the forest no one heard.
Of counse, that the press will not point this out consistently is one of the primary reasons we can’t have nice things anymore.
did you ever hear the phone message he left for his daughter on Kim Basinger’s answering machine?
I’m sad to say I did. It’s very unpleasant to hear, no matter what circumstance you choose for it.
Excellent catch on what passes as deep thinking by our “conservative” monsters.
There have been two Roberts Court gun cases by which they created their phony “personal defense” theory of gun rights. They were both decided 5-4 by conservative activists masquerading as “justices”. They overruled unquestioned Supreme Court Second Amendment cases to do so.
Roe was decided 40 years ago, over only two dissenters. It was not even expected to be a controversial decision. The ensuing ontroversy was manufactured over the following decade(s) by the Fallwell “Christian Rightist” movement. Over the course of time, the decision was re-visited several times, by numerous additional justices. It was continually upheld, although in modified (i.e weakened) form.
What has “conservatives” concerned, of course, is that their newly made up Second Amendment “gun rights” may very well not survive with anything other than a majority of far-right activist kooks like Scalia, Roberts, Alito and Thomas running the Court. Their beloved Scalians are currently engaged in reversing every 5-4 decision that O’Connor wrote during her years on the Court. “Conservatives” know they are one vote away from having all their modern Dred Scotts and Plessys (such as Citizens United) reversed as incoherent, irrational, baseless and blindly ideological.