Our Modern Royalism Part 1:


On Eric Alterman's site correspondent Charles Pierce, quotes the following:

"The president is not above the law, Kennedy wrote, but there is a "paramount necessity of protecting the executive branch from vexatious litigation that might distract it from the energetic performance of its constitutional duties."

Here the Supreme Court is solicitously exempting the Vice President from rendering up documentation as to whole testified before his fabled "Energy Task Force" back in the day.
Judge Kennedy and his colleagues are suddenly concerned with preserving the Executive Department from vexing and distracting litigation.
This is the same god damned Supreme Court that had NO PROBLEM with allowing Paula Jones spurious lawsuit against Bill Clinton to go forward until it practically toppled the government!
Now suddenly these judicial ass-holes are worried about the executive department and it's ability to govern.
Republicans govern only on behalf of other republicans they don't give a damn about the common good or even the very patriotism they allege to be so obsessed with.
They are movement conservatives FIRST and a very poor specimen of citizen second.
I've said it before and I will say it again, we are beyond hypocrisy in this country. Mere hypocrisy presupposes the existence of a self perpetuating moral order that must be deferred to by the morally conpromised.
The Supreme Court's willful delineation of one set of onerous rules for democrats whilst insisting republicans must govern sans "distractions" is taking this proud nation down the road to royalism and governance by the overtly privileged.

Sick
Demented
Typical!