[Marxism] reactionary Supreme Court picks and the Democrats

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Louis Proyect wrote -

It *is*  true that McCain will nominate terrible people, but on the 
other hand the  DP has done nothing to block these nominations. In 
fact, John Roberts--one  of the worst of the lot--got 78 votes for and 
only 22 against. The 44  Democratic Senators split down the middle. 
While the DP might not have  mustered enough votes to block the 
nomination, you really have to wonder  what point there is in voting 
for a party that has so many of its Senators  finding Roberts acceptable.  



 
By threatening to filibuster the Alito nomination and then backing down  
without a whisper as well as enthusiastically supporting the Roberts nomination 
 
(Biden in particular), the Democrats forfeited their long-time claim to the 
left  that "even if we are the lesser evil, we are the only force standing in 
the 
way  of reactionary Supreme Court choices". As with the wars against Iraq and 
 Afghanistan, torture, spying on US civilians and unswerving loyalty to Big 
Oil,  Big Pharma and the Zionist Lobby, the Democrats are fully complicit with 
the  crimes of Bush-Cheney, and the US left should not be shy about stating  
that.

We have it in our power to begin the world  over again âThomas Paine



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