We called him the Pick with an ‘R’. Doug Ireland calls him Alito the Hun. “[I]t’s hard to imagine a more reactionary judge,” Brother Doug writes. He begins his dissection with a couple of choice cuts:
Theocratic pit bull Gary Bauer, the dwarf former presidential candidate of the Christer hard right, crowed that the appointment of Alito was “a grand slam,” and crackpot antediluvian Phyllis Schlafly — who called Bush’s corporate flunky Harriet Miers a dangerous “feminist,” of all things — likewise gave her enthusiastic blessing …
More from Brother Doug’s terrible swift scalpel: The Hun “would gut Roe v. Wade,” if given the chance, and he’s homophobic — see his decision “in a case involving a disabled kid who was repeatedly a target of nasty anti-gay epithets.” He “doesn’t have much use for the Bill of Rights’ guarantees of freedom from unwarranted searches and seizures,” either. So “you can kiss a lot of your rights and liberties goodbye — permanently” if “Holy Joe” Lieberman and other right-wing Senate Dems “vote to short-circuit any filibuster” of the nomination.
Trouble is, unless we miss our guess, the Pick with an ‘R’ is too damned mainstream to rate a filibuster. Forgive us, lawd, our jaundiced view.
— Tireless Staff of Thousands
Postscript: In re: Iraqi Official Aims to Refurbish Image:
TOP OF THE SAND HEAP
Let bygones be bygones and let’s not be snobby
In welcoming back Mr. Ahmad Chalabi.
So he led us astray quite memorably
With fanciful tales of WMD,
So what if he gave the U.S. a black eye
By serving as a double or triple spy.
On this range there’s no chance of a perfect rider
Especially when he’s a D.C. insider.
He’s now the Iraqi deputy prime minister
And apt very soon to be something more sinister:
The actual prime minister, the top of the summit,
A position from which he’s unlikely to plummet,
For he’s coming to confab with Ms. Condi Rice,
Whom he bamboozled once — so, pray, why not twice?
— Leon Freilich
