(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . An Open Letter to the Six Blind Mice [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-07-02 Cheez Louise, guys! Now you’re not even bothering with the Constitution when you make a decision. (Not surprising, but we’ll get to that in a minute.) Instead, you pull out some obscure “rules” (which look suspiciously as tho they’ve been made up on the spot) to justify giving the President – which in your minds apparently means only Donald Trump – a bunch of privileges that even Louis XV would have envied. Or maybe you’re just trying to set a record for the worst judicial ruling since, oh, maybe Webster Thayer’s rejection of Sacco and Vanzetti’s appeal. (Long aside for those who just might not know whom I’m talking about. It’s this lot: The guy who’s just fine with the Jan 6th mob; The wholly-owned subsidiary of Harlan Crow; The beer guy; The guy who knows he’s on the Court only because his mommy once worked for Ronald Reagan; The guy called “Chief”, but who seems to have undergone a spine transplant from Marco Rubio; The girl who for a while there looked like she was inching in the direction of Anthony Kennedy. Nah!) Now then, about that Constitution that you’re supposed to have sworn to uphold. More and more, it looks like none of you have ever actually read the thing. Take the Crow guy’s fixation on something called “Original intent”. You claim to know what was in the minds of the framers in 1787, and anything after that (including, I would imagine, the constitution itself) is irrelevant. Now, any bright fourth-grader could squash your argument flat with just two words: “Article 3”. There’s your original intent. But you seem not to have read that far. If at all. The Mob guy has gone even further back. According to you, if it wasn’t in the mind of some obscure jurist of the 13thcentury, you can ignore it. And what with your latest gibberish about religion, I suspect you’d have been quite happy sitting next to Increase Mather at the Salem trials. Or maybe writing the majority decision in the Dred Scott case. The rest of you, I’m sorry to say, are of no consequence. To the two guys who are driving this bus (off a cliff), you’re just padding to help make the numbers. [Short aside to Thalia, Agleia, and Euphrosyne*: you ladies have pretty nearly the worst job in the country right now. About all you can do is continue to write with Grace and thoughtfulness, and hope things will get better. Thank you all.] Yours, The Auld Faarte, Ot. B., Ot. D, St. E (Oh, all right: “Older than Biden, Older than Dumbass, Sharper than Either”) *Look it up. I’m not going to do all the work for you… [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/7/2/2250755/-An-Open-Letter-to-the-Six-Blind-Mice?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=more_community&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/