Double Grrrrrrr

I just finished writing this post and because of problems with blogger (DAMN YOU BLOGGER!! DAMN YOU TO HELL!!!) I lost the post and have to write this again.

Which double sucks since the subject is enraging in and of itself.

Joe Conason wrote a good article in the New York Observer on Bush's judicial nominees. Here's a sample:

The conservatism of the Bush judicial nominees is plain enough, if "conservative" is defined as synonymous with the attitudes and objectives of the religious right. One of his most recent choices for a federal appellate nomination, Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor, filed an amicus brief in the Texas sodomy-law case currently pending before the Supreme Court that compares gays with those who practice "necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography, incest and pedophilia."

In other words, Mr. Pryor is the kind of devout busybody whose overwhelming desire to intervene in other people’s private sexual conduct defines him as a "conservative" in the White House lexicon. Other Bush nominees apparently share these prejudices masquerading as conservatism. But in what sense can the President’s judicial selections be described as compassionate? Only, perhaps, if that word’s definition has been twisted to mean absolute solicitude for corporations and bureaucracies—and none for ordinary citizens.

Read the rest. Link via Cursor.