David Latane wrote:
>It's of course the 400th anniversary of the big
>fizzle--is anyone going to witness the re-enactment of
>Robin Catesby's ride from London to Ashby St. Legers?
>Will there be extra bonfires? I'm feeling
>extra-anti-clerical myself at the moment since if
>Dubya's Supreme pick is confirmed there will be a vote
>of 5 old Catholic men on the Court to reverse Roe v.
>Wade. Of course their Catholicism is probably
>irrelevant compared to their rightwingism.
>
>
I am mystified. Why is anyone surprised that Bush's choice would be a
back-to-basics hardliner like Alito? Did you expect him to pick someone
from the National Lawyer's Guild? At least Alito appears to have the
stature to be hateable: Miers had no judicial experience whatsover and
that simpery little smile suggested she'd taken an anvil in head to save
the life of Wily Coyote.
As for collection of Catholics, maybe. Maybe Bush--like many
evangelical Protestants--is willing to make Catholics the fall guys for
his policies. I suspect there is still a profound mistrust of what my
rather unenlightened neighbor snarlingly calls "the Roman Church." We
have not gotten far from the 1960 Presidential campaign when Jack
Kennedy all but had to state he wasn't taking orders from Rome. Of
course right-wing thinking does not necessarily line up with
Catholicism. But again...did you think Bush was going to appoint a
liberal Catholic jurist or, for that matter, a liberal Protestant of any
stripe. His objective is to get rid of Roe v Wade and he most likely
will succeed. How to prevent that is another story.
ken
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