Wednesday, January 27, 2010

The Adult in the Room

Still.

Awesome moment of the night: calling out the Supreme Court sitting right in front of him. Which includes douchiest moment of the night, Justice Samuel Alito mouthing/saying, "Definitely not true," as if he's a Representative from South Carolina:



From a TPM reader:

The Supremes are used to wafting into the House in their black robes, sitting dispassionately through the speech and wafting ethereally out again on a cloud of apolitical rectitude. It's like they forget they're there because they're one of the three branches. And I truly don't think it ever occured to them that crassly injecting themselves into the sordid partisan fray of what they like to call "the political branches" with that catastrophic decision would cause the President to treat them like people who'd injected themselves into the sordid partisan fray. (And why should they? After all, they got away with Bush v. Gore with barely a dent in their credibility). I even thought I detected a bit of "told you" coming from the four in the minority.

I think we saw a bit of history made tonight, and no one noticed except the Supremes themselves.


Right on. The minute the Cheney/Bush Administration started recruiting Justices (and Chief Justice) directly from the ultra-conservative Federalist Society (created specifically for this infiltrative purpose) they politicized the Court with rightwing activism, a mirror image of the very thing they've accused the left of doing since Chief Justice Earl Warren. Well, you're called out now, bitches!

Another classic moment: Obama calls on the banks to pay for having used our money to restore their gargantuan profits, and the Republicans sit on their hands:



And then there's ol' man McCain, the bullet we dodged in November 2008, reacting to Obama reminding the chamber of how the failed policies of the preceding eight years handed him the worst deal of any incoming President since 1932 by saying/mouthing, "Blame it on Bush."



No, John, blame it on an ideology. Your party's.

I also love that he told the Dems to not act like terrified losers and run to the hills on health care etc. after one special election. And I love his call to repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell.

Yep, grown up talk.

Now will the legislators in that room please grow up?

1 comment:

Master Fu said...

Remember the old russian 3 letters joke? Bush must of left him 3 letters. He's already opened the first letter.

1. Blame the previous administration.

This worked so well for him the first year, Apparently he's opened the 2nd letter now.
2. Blame it on congress / judicial branch

And when 2012 comes... What's the 3rd letters advice?
3. Write 3 letters.