Saturday, June 03, 2006

Bush Blames Activist Judges - The Same Kind That Put Him In Office?

In an unfortunately not so rare occurrence Bush exposed his own hypocrisy in his speech supporting a Gay Discrimination Amendment to the Constitution. The Amendment which is largely a tactic to pander to the fundamentalist Christianists has little chance of seeing the light of day, so it is strange that Bush would waste time in his radio address to drum up support for it.
CNN's Jack Cafferty states it well.

He blamed the need for an amendment to ban gays and lesbians from marriage on those pesky activist judges. Activist judges seem to be the boogie man this week, and after all any speech by Bush has to have a boogie man. This president deals only in misinformation and fear. If he can't scare you, he can't control you. So today it's activist judges and those scary homosexuals.

If memory serves, it was those pesky activist judges on the Supreme Court that decided the election in 2000 which put Bush in office. Perhaps we need an amendment to protect the Presidency from judicial meddling? To quote from his address today:
"This national question requires a national solution, and on an issue of
such profound importance, that solution should come from the people, not the
courts."

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