This team of heavyweight conservatives can easily be fingered as the duo who gave us President George W. Bush – and subsequently the worst recession in American History.
It was Ted Olson who argued and won the case of Bush V Gore for Governor George W Bush to become President of the United States. And it was Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia who was the loudest voice in putting away his and his conservative colleges lifetime ideology of states rights to make a political appointment for a fellow conservative to become the President no matter what Florida or the popular vote had to say about it.
Lose any retirement money lately? Investments down? Home value reduced? Fear of losing your job, car or home? Send the bill to Olsen and Scalia.
And now for something completely different!
Conservative Ted Olson, along with liberal lawyer David Bois who argued for Al Gore in Bush v Gore – has taken on California’s Proposition 8. He is arguing for gay and lesbian marriage to a federal appeals court, expecting to lose and soon be argue the case in front of the Supreme Court. (Scalia won’t be going along with this one, let me tell you)
Ted Olson has a history as a hardcore ideological conservative Republican. Working as assistant Attorney General for the Reagan Administration and Solicitor General during the Bush Administration. He is a member of the far right Federalist Society and on the board of directors for the radical right publication The American Spectator.
Olsen claims that allowing gays and lesbians to marry is not only a basic constitutional right, but in line with what ideology and says it well in this except from the Jan 10th Newseek magazine, The Conservative Case for Gay Marriage – Why same-sex marriage is an American value.
Many of my fellow conservatives have an almost knee-jerk hostility toward gay marriage. This does not make sense, because same-sex unions promote the values conservatives prize. Marriage is one of the basic building blocks of our neighborhoods and our nation. At its best, it is a stable bond between two individuals who work to create a loving household and a social and economic partnership. We encourage couples to marry because the commitments they make to one another provide benefits not only to themselves but also to their families and communities. Marriage requires thinking beyond one’s own needs. It transforms two individuals into a union based on shared aspirations, and in doing so establishes a formal investment in the well-being of society. The fact that individuals who happen to be gay want to share in this vital social institution is evidence that conservative ideals enjoy widespread acceptance. Conservatives should celebrate this, rather than lament it.
And if all that isn’t enough to make you crazy, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is taking the unusual stand against police, law and order and his overall religious based right-wing crapism. You will remember that Scalia has often and in various ways said he believes that it is just fine to execute innocent people – as long as the law was followed. Executing the innocent is what conservatives call judicial restraint – as opposed to Judical . Scalia is no friend of the rights of the accused or the convicted.
The case is called U.S. v. Comstock where the government is arguing to keep sex offenders in jail even after they have served their sentences. He is positioned to be on the losing side of this case.
I am amazed that anyone, ANYONE could even contemplate giving the government the right to hold ANYONE in jail as long as they please. Well come to think of it, we already do that to foreign terror suspects and as we are the most sexually retarded nation in the civilized world, I don’t know why I am so surprised.