After all, there does exist an exquisite distinction that separates "I won't" from "I can't."
A majority of 35-plus year-old Americans have seen their individual net worth drop as if according to a Newtonian principle of gravity. Their home equity has vanished. The value in their 401k's has plummeted. And whatever values they may have had in external stock portfolios have pretty much evaporated. Now, the United States Supreme Court's ultra-conservative, corporatist majority has decided, in a 5-4 straight party line vote, that, even if the perpetrator of the shenanigans that were the proximate cause of the loss were guilty as charged, and even if they admitted to the very wrong-doing, they can escape the financial consequences of their deprecations. (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/business/14bizcourt.html?ref=januscapitalgroup )
Those who voted to elect Ronald Wilson Reagan as president, also voted to see Antonin Scalia confirmed as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court.
Those who voted to elect Ronald Wilson Reagan as president, also voted to see Anthony Kennedy confirmed as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court.
Those who voted to elect Vice-President George Herbert Walker Bush as president, also voted to see Clarence Thomas confirmed as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court.
Those who voted to elect George W. Bush as president, also voted to see Samuel Alito confirmed as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court.
Those who voted to elect George W. Bush as president, also voted to see John Roberts confirmed as Chief Justice on the Supreme Court.
And all who vote Republican in 2012, have said with that vote that, by and large, they agree with and support not only the deregulating policies encapsulated in Republican orthodoxy that have led to the demise of their own net worth (and that of their family and neighbors and country), but as well the conservative direction the court has taken over the last three decades that has legitimized those policies as now unchallengeable writ edict.
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