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If a "bunch of ultra-evangelical Christians" committed a terrorist act, would you then protest the building of any Christian churches? 

Why do you hate the First Amendment?  Freedom of religion?

15 thousand terrorist attacks?

I suspect this number includes the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.  Where we invaded their country.

You impeach your credibility when you use a ludicrous statistic.

"Activist judge" is just so much propaganda.  It's not a phrase to use in serious legal discussion.  My objection to the phrase is two-fold.

First, the phrase suggests that the proper role of the judiciary is to rubber stamp anything passed by the legislature.  From the early days of the Court, the opposite has been true. 

Second, the phrase is used by right-wingers to decry the legal changes imposed by the Warren Court, and to hide all of the legal changes done by conservatives in the past three decades.  Most recently, "activist" conservatives reversed a long history of Second Amendment jurisprudence to declare a Constitutional right for individuals to carry a handgun, and in doing so overthrew the DC handgun ban. 

"Activist judge" is just so much propaganda.  It's not a phrase to use in serious legal discussion.  My objection to the phrase is two-fold.

First, the phrase suggests that the proper role of the judiciary is to rubber stamp anything passed by the legislature.  From the early days of the Court, the opposite has been true. 

Second, the phrase is used by right-wingers to decry the legal changes imposed by the Warren Court, and to hide all of the legal changes done by conservatives in the past three decades.  Most recently, "activist" conservatives reversed a long history of Second Amendment jurisprudence to declare a Constitutional right for individuals to carry a handgun, and in doing so overthrew the DC handgun ban. 

He voted for Alito, Roberts, Sotoymayor.

It's worth saying that historically, you haven't seen the entire minority caucus (or nearly the entire minority caucus) vote to oppose a nominee.  A good number of the current justices were confirmed with over 90 votes from the Senate, including  Ginsburg, Scalia, and Kennedy.  (Breyer got 87 votes.)  Thomas is a notable exception, but he's been a terrible justice. 

Today's Republican has been trained to oppose anything any Democrat suggests, anywhere at any time. 

No, I meant Mondale over Reagan.

How old are you, BTW?  Do you remember 1983?  I do. 

Please, if you're going to correct me on something, have the decency to not be thoroughly wrong about things that I remember.  I personally never correct somebody unlesss I can provide a citation supporting my point.  Otherwise all you're doing is making noise in the wind.

Read this:

http://people-press.org/commentary/?analysisid=31

From 1975 through 1991, early leads were a positive indicator of who was _eventually going to lose the race_. 

Mondale had a huge lead over Reagan at one point.  

Another difference is that in 1993, it had been roughly 40 years since the last time the GOP controlled the House of Representatives.  Gingrich could show up and say all sorts of shit because nobody knew just how bad he'd be once he was in power.

Now everybody knows.  It's important to look at the approval ratings for Congressional Republicans, which are historically low. 

Basically, the GOP has been trying for the past 15 months to recreate 1994. 

Hadn't visited MyDD in a while.  I used to read it often, but the anti-Obama sentiment in 2008, even after he won the nomination, was a bit hard to stomach.    I see you guys are still running schadenfreude central.  Glad to see you're all team players.

Are you familiar with modular arithmetic?

Sometimes 1 + 1 = 0. 

:)

"nor in any other policy arena..."

Glad to hear that Obama isn't stonewalling on closing Gitmo any more!  And he's pushing forward with investigation of all the Bush era crimes, not to mention cracking down on the telecoms for spying on Americans.

"in certain states liek MA, NIMBYs have tremendous power."

Yeah, MA and 49 others.  And DC while we're at it.

The Kennedys have almost no power any more.  Even Patrick is quitting the House.  And nobody in Washington cares what RFK Jr. thinks or says.

If a black person calls another black person an "Uncle Tom" or an "Oreo", that's not racism. It's not very nice, but it's not racism. Just because black people are involved doesn't make any name-calling racist. Invest in a dictionary.