Blog Chatter: Impeach John Roberts–headline on Politico.com, 11:45 a.m.
Prepare the bumper stickers!
Put up a sign or billboard!
Sign up Rove’s ass-lickers
To motivate the shrill horde
Spur on the troops to ravage!
Arm each Romney proxy!
Pump up Beck and Savage
Shoot Rush full of oxy.
When justice doesn’t give up
The answer that you sought
It’s time to stick a shiv up
Some judge who won’t stay bought.
We’ve seen this movie once before
In nineteen-hundred-fifty-four.
Old ladies in their tennis shoes—
Shocked and frightened by the news
Coming from the highest court–
Took it on themselves to thwart
Evil powers, hidden, foreign,
Like that communist, Earl Warren.
Forego the celebration
Til you’ve had time to parse
The underlying farce
Of the broccoli formulation.
A deal made with the devil
Or a Machiavelli’s dream
From a justice so extreme?
If I were Rove I’d revel.
It isn’t too Talmudic
Or even paranoid
Nothing to avoid
Commerce Clause realpolitik.
Where once we were Neanderthal
More will have health care after all.
But is the price we pay too steep
To get a law less than complete?
While ceding much of Federal power—
A decision rank and sour—
To require states’ compliance.
What will we do with their defiance?