With A Bang AND A Whimper

And so the hearings close up shop and fade into the mushroom patch. Thank god. Five more minutes of Graham or Sessions or Biden and I'd have had to cut my throat. Once again, we're reminded that in our system, we can only seem to elect moronic self servers, who wouldnt know a follow up question if it walked up, introduced itself and then shot them in the ass, but who can make a thirty minute speech about nothing while asking a question about nothing, but insuring their full allotment of screen time.

At no point in this monumental clusterfuck did Alito do anything to make anyone think that his thinking isn't laid out in his life, his actions, and his rulings. As such, he is shown to be, by the most precise dictionary definition, a fascist. Every atom in him sings for corporate government (not to be confused, EVER, with corporate governANCE!), for government power (whatever happened to 'conservative'Repugs?), for the exclusion of the common citizen from the seats of power, for everything the Founders fought against, and that he should, as a Supreme Court Justice, be fighting for. At no point did he give an answer that actually addressed a legal issue, or legal theory. Mostly he dodged and danced and waited for wifeypoo to cry.

The country is in enough danger at the moment, from within as much as from without. This administration is determined to manufacture Imperial power for the country AND for the President; they've failed miserably at the first, but are having more success at the second. And, ironically, their failure to build an American empire may weaken the structure enough that they can push through their dreams of an Imperial president (just sans an Empire to rule....)

Alito on the Court will only enhance their prospects of pulling this off. Let me say this slowly FUCK ROE! This is about much, much more than just Roe. This is about every right everyone of us has ever possessed. We don't think about it much, but all that stand between us and losing them, is the Supreme Court keeping the Executive in check on the legal front. With Scalia and Thomas on the Court already, and Alito on his way, that's one third of the Court as absolutely, total, certified-loonie wingnuts (slightly more than the general pop, dontcha think?)

Get on the phone. Break out your email client. Call, write, visit, your Senators and make them understand that this man should not, MUST not, serve on the court.