Tuesday, July 12, 2005

Snakes and Alligations

Florida Governator Jeb Bush was happy to have Hurricane Dennis to blame for widespread destruction this weekend. It took the spotlight off the low-key admission by the state AG office that it was dropping it's investigation into the Schiavo case. After looking at the facts the prosecutor's office grudgingly announced that there was "no evidence of wrondoing" in the allegations that Michael Schiavo had participated in his wife's mysterious collapse.

Will this put the matter to rest for the staunch conservatives who want to play God with the constitution? Hardly. These zealots are not much different than the Mullahs and Ayatollahs who want to enforce their brand of "morality" on the world.

Facts that are inconvenient are shunted to the caboose of awareness. So the Die-hards will never believe that the courts are right when they think the majority of judges voted "left".
Politically, those who cannot compromise are doomed. They have always been run out of office by a reasoned and reasonable majority. Even when they appoint judges to the highest courts, the judges are often turned to the "dark side" by the power of reasoned argument -except Scalia and Thomas, of course.

Et tu, Clooney?