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Jaw-Dropper: Fox Affiliate in Orlando Calls Neo-Nazis a 'Civil Rights Group'

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Lidane4/08/2012 9:16:09 pm PDT

re: #322 jaunte

Geoffrey Norman at the Weekly Standard thinks President Obama is a big unfair-fighting meanie. (McCarthyite, thug, Chicago, etc.). He actually dared to comment on the Supreme Court.
[Link: www.weeklystandard.com…]

By contrast, EJ Dionne suddenly remembered where he put his spine, at least temporarily:

The United States, FDR insisted, could not afford “to sacrifice each generation in turn while the law catches up with life.” He spoke with a sense of urgency in the midst of the Great Depression. “The millions who are in want,” he said, “will not stand by silently forever while the things to satisfy their needs are within easy reach.”

FDR lost the court-packing fight but won the larger battle over the right of the democratic branches of government to legislate on behalf of the common good.

Progressives would be wildly irresponsible if they sat by quietly while a conservative Supreme Court majority undid 80 years of jurisprudence. Roosevelt wasn’t a wimp, and Obama has decided that he won’t be one, either. Conservatives are unhappy because they prefer passive, intimidated liberals to the fighting kind.

I give it a week before he goes back to being the insufferable “centrist” squish he’s been for the last few years, but whatever. At least he got a decent article up for a change.