I suggest we don’t refer to them as “conservative” justices when “Republican” is more appropriate. Radical ones.

TBogg,

The Post had a lead editorial last Friday with the same ludicrous misordering of priorities, i.e., the say they agree with the law and its constitutionality, but they worry, preemptively, that “liberals” are going to complain too loudly. My (unpublished) letter in response:

The Post’s editors lament that liberals might accuse the five Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices of being “partisan, activist and, essentially, intellectually corrupt” when they likely strike down all or part of the ACA (“The Supreme Court’s Civics Lesson”, March 30) . Yet the Post declares “the government’s argument is strong enough to carry the day” and adduces arguments in support that view. It’s a strange ordering of priorities that the Post seems more worried about the Court’s reputation than about whether it decides the case wrongly or not.
Perhaps citing an example of gross political hackery might illuminate how the right wing court’s reputation is beyond salvage, despite the Post’s preemptive implorations to tone down the outrage. In responding to the government’s lawyer A. Scalia derisively referred to the “Cornhusker Kickback”, an unseemly piece of horse trading that never found it into the final bill. Furthermore, Scalia complained about the prospect of having to read the 2700 page bill when the issue of “severability” arose. Scalia, the author of that travesty Bush v. Gore, has demonstrated that, while unacquainted with the content of the bill, he is well-versed in the right’s talking points about it. Why not cut the pretense of a magisterial court and just replace the nine justices with Rush Limbaugh?

Anyone remember “Cold Miser” from that kids’ Christmas special? Yeah, that’s her.

David Dayen:

You’re confusing Slovakia with Slovenia!

They’re just as easy to confuse in their native tongues, as they are Slovensko and Slovenija, respectively.

It’s “Frankfurt”, Germany. “Frankfort” is the capital of Kentucky.

Espresso is not “expresso” any more than spaghetti is “piscetti”.

phoenixwoman,

Boy this old biddy, as well as the Post, has to be deluged with disapproving mail. This column was a nadir of buybodied irrelevance.

Here’s one letter:

It’s unsurprising that Ruth Marcus finds the time to scold high-schoolers who malign politicians (“Emma Sullivan’s potty-mouthed tweet has a lesson for all of us”, Nov. 30). It’s easier, after all, to go after a young student (and her mother) than those with wealth and power. It’s revealing that the same day Marcus devoted her valuable column space to targeting Sullivan the Post informed us that the Federal Reserve had given the banks that crashed our financial system trillions of dollars with no Congressional oversight. Marcus has never recommended investigation and prosecution of Wall Street fraud, as far as I know. She seems more concerned with revoking the phone privileges of voting-age citizens who use profanity than with holding the powerful accountable before the law. Marcus’s deference to that power, and eagerness to censor those without it, are what’s really obscene here. A couple of Emma Sullivan’s choice epithets would serve well in appraising this busybody’s column and the political order she demands we show such respect for.

The other one raises the point that Sullivan is old enough to vote, as well as to serve in the wars Marcus has either cheerled or countenanced.

Katehi is Greek and was a university student there in the 70′s. See nakedcapitalism comment thread for indications that she was probably a fascist junta sympathizer or supporter.

Congress, like the White House or the Mall is considered “free speech zone” by the powers-that-be. I like OWS becuase it’s beginning to target the invisible powers, which are omnipresent.

Congress, as it has so unreflectively illustrated with it Super Wankers conclave, is an irrelevant sham, as is the electoral process, as witnessed by the freak-show charade of the Republican primaries.

I say that as a square who will continue to vote for (but not donate to) the Democrats.

The regime can’t be petitioned. It doesn’t have legitimacy to address our grievances even if it wanted to.

That’s why it’s in the Post, way in advance. It actually sounds lame. Not to be flippant, but who cares about Congress at this point? We’re living in a police state.

Washington’s McPherson Square has them.

…but I have my suspicions

There’s something suspicious about this:

New York chose the latter early Tuesday, when it shut down roads, bridges and subway systems near Zuccotti Park, a concrete square near Wall Street.

It’s like the rationale is protecting transportation infrastructure.

Jon Walker,

(It’s “rationales”)

This is a great line of inquiry.

The coordination is creepy. The press-police coordination, too, as evidenced by the Post’s article today (“Occupation or infestation”).

Take me to your leader.

Oh, brother.

The first order of business is to remove the leaders we have, and not just the elected ones.

Good op-ed about censorship under the guise of “copyrignt protection”:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/opinion/firewall-law-could-infringe-on-free-speech.html

In the end they’ll just copyright “Wall Street” and “democracy”.

The Post’s reaction is enlightening, as it betrays the coordination of press and police in responding.