Friday, January 13, 2006

Dear George,   It looks as if you’ve hit the political trifecta with the pending approval of Sam Alito as O’Conner’s replacement on the Supreme Court.  You will finally have your lock on all three branches of government—the executive, legislative and judicial.  Once again, your loyal allies, the Democrats, have bent over and spread their cheeks for you.    Soon, Alito will join Thomas and Scalia to speed this country’s forward momentum into the eighteenth century.  Like the other two, Alito is an “originalist” who believes the Constitution should be interpreted in the context of the time when it was drafted, a time when this country was an agrarian society ruled by a landed aristocracy in which only White, male property owners over the age of twenty-one could vote.  On Election Day, the candidates set up tables well stocked with hogsheads of rum where eligible voters stepped up to one table or the other to cast their votes.  It was a golden age when a man’s vote was neither secret nor sober.   Thanks to you and the Congress, America is headed for a real power bottom when the law once again becomes what God intended it to be:  an instrument for keeping the oppressed in place.    This does raise and interesting question:  If madness becomes the norm, is it still madness?   Your admirer, Belacqua Jones 9:15:24 PM    comment []

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