Synchronicity

Isn't it amazing, the Supreme Court gives the Shrub a good legal spanking and the next day there's a new tape out from none other than Osama "dead or alive" bin Laden. Apparently he's alive, or at least was during the last overly hyped pseudo-victory in the War on a Tactic. If I were a conspiracy theorist, and I'm not, this would be a strong indication that he's alive and well in a CIA facility somewhere outside of U. S. law, ready to be "captured" about the last week in October. If I were a conspiracy theorist, that is.

It appears that the Shrubpublicans' attempt to make immigration into an issue isn't playing well with the immigrants, particularly the Hispanics. They're correctly referring to the call for hearings into immigration reform as a stalling tactic designed to appeal to the Conservative base or better put, the baser drives of the Conservative base. The best thing about this is that the Repugnicans aren't winning any friends in the Latino community and their support among Latinos is fading, squandered by Bush and Co. just as they squandered the surplus Clinton gave him (remember surplusses). Just this week, two-thirds of Repugnicans voted to eliminate multilingual ballots in a move to keep those they're disaffecting from voting. And they did it in the name of a national language, hiding their true motives behind a pseudo-patriotic smokescreen. Those who can't lead blow smoke.

Here's a reframe of the Repugnican stand that torture, indefinite imprisonment and other shady tactics repudiated by the Supreme Court are the Shrub being tough on terror: Bullshit. The Supreme Court was quite clear: These tactics are illegal. The Geneva Convention, a treaty, has more legal authority than the Constitution you're trampling. You swore to uphold the Constitution. The ancient word for you, Bush and Republicans, is foresworn. In modern parlance, you're a damned liar, Mr. President, and you aren't doing your job. Apparently you want to cut up the Constitution and all our treaty obligations in your run for power. Thursday's ruling stopped that and no matter how you reframe, what you did was wrong.