Billion Dollar Boy

Impressive. The more we hear from Judge Roberts, the more we have to admire his brilliance and the scope of his knowledge of both politics and the law. And still I keep coming back to the question: Why does this man always look scared?

The guy is a fucking culture, grown thirty years in a petri dish, the Boy from Brazil. I find it interesting that here we are, at midnight on the very edge of the moment these right wing conservative denialists have been pulling for since Reagan first smelled a hippy. Their stars have aligned: two justices down, control of the house and senate, a world at war, populace scared, oil at an all time high, billions of dollars in no-contest Homeland Defense contracts let to Texas corporations while anti-trust laws are scuttled -- and nobody has the temerity to ask the candidate to stand up and show us his naval. "Are you an 'innie', sir, or an 'outie'?" Inquiring minds want to know.

This guy is way -- way beyond bad news, people. The guy looks scared because he knows that everything is riding on him; thirty years of investiture, oil wars, the alignment of nations. But it's not the unraveling of global structure, hanging by a thread -- his thread -- that scares him; that's merely a symptom, a sign. He looks scared because he just knows that the rapture is upon us. Sure, he cites law like scripture, in latin, from memory. No big deal for a zealot. In his eyes, as in the eyes of his President, man's law is a means to an end, and he is an agent of change. Never mind the fact that he is a pawn of tyrants.

"I'm no ideologue", he says. We don't have words, in modern language, to describe what this guy is. And the 'Ginsburg stance'? Give me a break.

This is not about abortion. It's never been about abortion. It is about womans rights. It is about race. It is about class. It is about incorporation. And the bad guys just won.

What a sham. Ladies and gentlemen, the man who will swear in the next President of the United States, Chief Justice John Roberts.