The Arizona Republic has this article about Arizona's own Sandra Day O'Connor's address to the National Governors association. Our system of government is under assault by the current incarnation of the Republican Party. The President basically ignores the other two branches and at the state level the Judiciary is under constant assault.
I think defending our form of government should become a plank of the Democratic Party platform. What is more American than our form of government? The Constitution is important, separation of powers is important and freedom is important. The best way to fight terrorism is not by destroying our form of government or by trading freedom for a false sense of security, it is to give would be terrorists our middle finger and telling them that no matter what they do, it will not change the way we choose to live.
Large portions of the Republican base were built on hatred for the judiciary, starting with Roe v. Wade. Unfortunately, that wing of the party does not care to protect our system from their ideology. They very simple want to get their way by any means. Our party must stand up for our way life and our form of constitutional government.
UPDATE: There is also this story about O'Connor. We definitely need more civics education....
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Ms. O'Conner should have been thinking about how much she loves the independent judiciary when she voted with the wingnuts on Bush v. Gore.
She was the swing vote. She could have prevented the current assault on the Constitution. But she voted with her politics instead of her brain.
When she apologizes to America for causing the disaster we've been enduring for the past six and a half years, I might start caring what she has to say again.
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