[lbo-talk] Alito & disability

[Dennis Perrin]

> Marta, they are NOT spineless, nor are they stupid. They (the DP
> leadership as a whole) are pursuing a policy that they believe in. Part
> of that policy, perhaps its very core, is that the opposition between
> the two parties must be a non-antagonistic contradiction; pursuing that
> contradiction must never disrupt or present a challenge to the normal
> operations of U.S. Society. And essential to those operations is the
> principle that the Supreme Court is "above politics," that one can
> object to the personal honesty or legal competence of a nominee, but
> that one cannot, except marginally, oppose a nomination on "ideological"
> grounds.
>
> Good Cop/Bad Cop. A Broadway Musical performed for the delectation of
> the populace, and we (those who make up the human material from which an
> actual left might emerge) help to legitimize that performance by
> becoming theatre reviewers of its quality.
>
> Carrol

Wow, Carrol. You & I are in complete agreement. A showbiz production that 
legitimizes a fixed arrangement.

Dennis