Marco Rubio, the new Senator from Florida, has emerged as one of the New Darlings of the right wing. Many Gopers even refer to him as "Our Obama," the thinking being "Let's find a youngish guy with an ethnic immigrant background and promote the hell out of him." Some are even making him a potential Veep candidate. I don't find Rubio that impressive. With his plastered down hair, shifty eyes, and shrill tone he looks like one of the guys you see promoting dubious get rich quick schemes on infomercials.
It turns out that Rubio has been lying about his family history. Rubio has been making a big deal about his parents being political refugees from the Castro Regime. But in turns out that his parents actually came to the US in 1956, i.e. before Castro came to power. Unbelievable that someone could think they could get away with a lie like that.
Friday, October 28, 2011
Friday, October 21, 2011
Selling Hate
Herman Cain's proposal to stop illegal immigration by building an electrified fence along the US southern border shows what has gone wrong with the GOP. I don't believe that Cain is a stupid person, if only because you must have some degree of intelligence to build a successful business. So it must be a ploy to pander to the bigots who have taken over the GOP especially the so-called Tea Partiers.
It seems that xenophobia and stupidity have become fused into a toxic mixture. These people have become so wrapped up in hatred that they don't even think about what they're saying. Do they even think about what building an electric border fence would cost? Furthermore, they don't understand that since America lives off imports, that you can't have the movement of goods without the movement of people. The only thing that would make the Tea Partiers really happy would be for them to crawl into a hole and die.
It seems that xenophobia and stupidity have become fused into a toxic mixture. These people have become so wrapped up in hatred that they don't even think about what they're saying. Do they even think about what building an electric border fence would cost? Furthermore, they don't understand that since America lives off imports, that you can't have the movement of goods without the movement of people. The only thing that would make the Tea Partiers really happy would be for them to crawl into a hole and die.
Friday, October 14, 2011
Legal Fiction
In a recent article in the Huffington Post "Corporate Citizenship: How Public Dissent in Paris Sparked Creation of the Corporate Person" Ryan Grim and Mike Sacks
how the Supreme Court decision Santa Clara Count v. Southern Pacific Railroad led to the pernicious legal doctrine that private corporations are "persons" and thus entitled to constitutional protections. This decision handed down in 1886, has had a destructive effect in allowing corporate interests to run over the public interest. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries it was used by big corporations to strike down child labor laws and other worker protections. The myth of "corporate personhood" is still alive and wreaking havoc. It was recently used by the Roberts Court in the Citizens United decision to say that corporate interests have the right to unlimited spending in elections. Makes you wonder whom the legal system works for.
how the Supreme Court decision Santa Clara Count v. Southern Pacific Railroad led to the pernicious legal doctrine that private corporations are "persons" and thus entitled to constitutional protections. This decision handed down in 1886, has had a destructive effect in allowing corporate interests to run over the public interest. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries it was used by big corporations to strike down child labor laws and other worker protections. The myth of "corporate personhood" is still alive and wreaking havoc. It was recently used by the Roberts Court in the Citizens United decision to say that corporate interests have the right to unlimited spending in elections. Makes you wonder whom the legal system works for.
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