Illegal wiretapping. Selling operational control of six major ports to the UAE. Valerie Plame. Tom DeLay. Abramoff. Isn’t this enough to deal with?
Apparently not, as about five hours ago South Dakota’s state senate passed a bill banning abortion. The House will too (they already passed one last week with slightly different wording) and the Governor will shock me if he vetoes it, which may not matter. If you want an abortion you’d better go out and get one, like, tonight.
With the ports, I find it hard to believe that no american companies or workers are capable of handling that job. I know plenty of guys who would work out at the docks if that was what there was to do. With the rampant corruption, well, we did that to ourselves. With the abortion issue, I will say this: I’ve been talking about the slow, slight decline for a couple fo years now and tonight the dropoff began in earnest. Its going to get a hell of a lot worse before it gets better.
The punchline? Justice John Paul Stevens has been kicking the old peanut around about retiring.