September 06, 2005
Yet Another Disaster
This morning, I heard a conservative interviewed on NPR, proudly say that John Roberts' views on affirmitive action are very clear, (with a smirk in his voice), they are just not in agreement with the liberal left. This statement comes right in the aftermath of the worst example this country has ever seen of victimization of the disenfranchised. When did it become acceptable to gloat about one's racism?
Folks, we are about to get a youthful, (and might I add, from the tone of his memos, arrogant and elitist) Chief Justice, with absolutely NO EXPERIENCE, (as in "Brownie's" appointment over at FEMA -- yet another unlearned lesson) who has spent his career fighting the scourges of affirmative action for women and minorities. A Supreme Court Chief Justice who is a former member of the Federalist Society , even though he had the good sense to "forget" it.
Lack of education and opportunity for miniorities is unlikely to improve the horrendous problems we have just witnessed for a week. Neither will having unwanted children, but we really can't say how the good Mr. Roberts feels about this issue, can we?.
This nomination stands out against the background of Katrina, and the clarity that it brings to the issue of disparities of privilege in this country. Why the Queen Mother, Barbara Bush, said it herself -- many of the homeless folks at the Houston Astrodome are living in better conditions than they do at home. She, of course, is worried that they will get used to the luxury of living on cots in a public building, and want to stay in her backyard. W. must have developed his capacity for compassion at his mother's bosom/knee.
I am eagerly awaiting the spectacle of yet another state funeral complete with the Lincoln Catafalque -- like Reagan's and the Pope's-- this time for William Rehnquist. I wonder if he had any red robes in his judicial wardrobe to wear for the for the occasion, maybe purple.
Ten thousand corpses are floating in their watery graves in New Orleans, and the folks responsible are putting on a show in hopes that the airwaves will fill with dignitaries marching past the corpse of a dead white man, who doesn't deserve any homage in my book.
Photo note: The withering cosmos and the American flag - take it from there, all ye metaphorophoto phanciers.