Democrats Lost the Election, By the Way --- Bush Supreme Court

OK, listening to all the rhetoric around the retirement of Sandra O'Connor one would think the Democrats have some power. Well, I'm sorry to be the one to say this but they don't. They not only lost the presidential election to a very crafty Karl Rove, but they are in the minority in both houses of Congress and don't even have much weight in the court system, which is packed with rightist judges. The Supreme Court essentially appointed Bush in 2000 (setting a precedence by ignoring massive and racist vote fraud in Florida), setting the stage for the past 4 plus year assault on civil liberties, reinforcement of the power of corporate interests over individuals, resurgence and ligitimation of bigotry, and the promotion of a war economy (not to mention to virtual selling of the government to benefit Halliburton and other friends of G.W. and Dick). Now it is time for Bush to start packing the court with the most rightist justices he can find, people who recognize that individual rights are just a nuisance that corporations shouldn't have to deal with, and who use the so-called "conservative social issues" as a smokescreen. In any event, if Bush can criminalize abortion (I see parallels to the struggle over marijuana, with states fighting to keep abortion legal against a hostile federal government) and get rid of affirmative action then this would go a long way to freeing the Democrats of these pesky "social issues" and making it easier to struggle on the economic front. Perhaps. In any event, the U.S. economy is headed for a sharp decline and it will probably be the Democrats who will be asked by the American people to clean up the mess, although they will not have a supportive judicial system when they next see the inside of the West Wing (as anything other than visitors).