Check out these three crooks. It's Rick "Pick Up Pennsylvania School Tax Dollars for my Virginia resident children" Santorum, Bill "Blind Trust Means I Didn't See Them, Not Didn't Know About Them" Frist, and Trent "Segregation Is A Proud Tradition" Lott.
I'm not sure if they're watching Frist debut his new hand puppet show, or if they're declaring that with Alito on the bench they'll finally be able to reverse these pesky instances of judicial activism like Roe v. Wade and Brown v. Board of Education.
While it's true that Republicans (and a particularly virulent brand of Republicanism) control all three branches of government today, the recent unanimous Senate vote and House voice vote to honor civil rights icon Rosa Parks this week signals that the so-called "Conservative" movement recognizes an overplayed hand: a few years ago a snarling Trent Lott, buoyed by his backers at the Council of Conservative Citizens, would have ripped into Parks as a Communist dupe, and the now-indicted Tom DeLay would have done the same. At least now they've been cowed into crocodile tears, even if they continue to work toward the consolidation of power behind the scenes.
It bears repeating: Conservative ideology is always a rearguard action against social progress. Women's rights have advanced despite conservative attacks; minority rights have advanced despite conservative attacks; science has advanced despite conservative attacks. Trust me...100 years from now we'll all be laughing about the Kansas State Board of Education.
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I certainly hope that we'll be laughing about the KSB of Education.
And not crying about it.
Sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying.
But by then the Flying Spaghetti Monster will have returned to vanquish the blasphemers.
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