When It Rains, it Pours

It's very easy to not look at these events as some huge conspiracy, but it's very difficult NOT to see them as the political efforts of ideologically similar people in positions of power once again bearing fruit. It's almost as if the period from 2006-20010 was a brief pause in the GOP/Rove plan for a permanent Republican majority, and they're doing their best to implement the rest of it.

Links regarding Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn:

"Supreme Court OKs State Funding Scheme for Religious Schools and Bars Challenges"
http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/politics/4468/supreme_court_oks_sta...

"In Tax-Credit Case, High Court Sidesteps Constitutional Issue"
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2011/04/05/in-tax-credit-case-high-court-sidesteps-c...

"Justice Kagan's First Dissent" (lots of good information here)
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/04/justice-kagans-first-diss...

"Editorial: No Vouching for Religion"
http://www.stljewishlight.com/opinion/editorial/article_cd9393dc-605f-11e0-83...

Links on the Federal Government shutdown:
"No New Small Business or Housing Loans, No Military Pay, No New Clinical Trials: What Would a Federal Government Shutdown Mean For You?"
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2011/04/no-new-small-business-or-hous...

"Federal shutdown would stop tax audits"
http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2011/apr/6/federal-shutdo...

"How a shutdown would affect you" (An example article for Seattle/Washington)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2014693690_shutdown06m.html?p...

"Administration: 800,000 feds likely furloughed under a shutdown"
http://www.federaltimes.com/article/20110406/AGENCY01/104060301/

SKLAR v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

The Sklars lost their case before the 9th Circuit Court (the Supreme Court declined to hear it), but no action was taken by the IRS on the final opinion, which suggested that the tax breaks given to Scientology are unconstitutional and should be examined. Given that Scientology was not a litigant in that case, I do not believe that the court could rule on the conduct of the IRS toward it.

SKLAR v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE @findlaw
"http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-9th-circuit/1026044.html"

"Scotus rebuffs Scientology tax case"
http://www.politico.com/blogs/joshgerstein/1009/Scotus_rebuffs_Scientology_ta...

"New Details Emerge of Scientology-IRS Settlement"
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/06/new-details-emerge.html

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• republican mendacity
• collective bargaining
• first amendment
• 'establishment
• clause
• separation of church and state
• scientology
• religious education
• it is ok when we do it
• bastards

[DonQuixotedeKaw]

Quite frankly, without SCOTUS being wiped of its pro-fascist elements, I really don't see how a second civil war is going to be avoided. There are of course other essential preservations of, and repairs to our union that would be required, to prevent the bloodbaths that the corporate terrorists seem determined to have. Without a pro-human SCOTUS, our founder's experiment will at least end another stage, quite soon. That's if the constitutional USA does not completely self terminate.

[coreakuma]

I honestly may not know too much about poletics, but it seems like V for Vendetta coming to life. Don't know how far off I could be.

[LinkMEP]

@stealthbadger Yea, all of that is why I stopped being a Republican and became an independent moderate. And I can’t help but notice that most of the Republicans I respect most are really old. Colin Powell, John McCain, Condoleezza Rice, John Robitaille, Scott Brown. Only two of which are under 60 and Condoleezza is only a few years off. If the Republican party wants to return to its former glory it needs to shake the Tea Party and those with a simular mentality.

[stealthbadger]

@stealthbadger what they've been doing because they are essentially the most fervent of the GOP base that's been in place since the Southern Strategy was created, and have been anti-union, anti-immigration, anti-regulation, and anti-reproductive rights this whole time. Look up the Pew Research poll on those who identify with the Tea Party and think about it.

[stealthbadger]

@LinkMEP oops, my bad. BTW, for more about Reagan being anti-union and pro-CEO, you REALLY need to look up the history of his involvement with General Electric, and most specifically his speech about Medicare. Regarding this statement: "Only the Tea Party sub-group of The Republicans are more aggressive and want to destroy the unions. Same with everything else you say bad about the GOP as a whole," I'm trying to point out that the TP has been trying to do (cont)

[LinkMEP]

@stealthbadger Okay, Reagan was anti-Union. Though from what I can find his anti-union ideas stemmed from a great love of hard work and duty (being anti-strike) and less from being all pro-more money for CEOs like the Tea Party. Though don’t get me wrong, I am pro-union. I never said there wasn’t significant overlap between the Republicans and The Tea Party, in fact I referred to Tea Party as a sub-group within The Republican Party.

You say (cont) at the end but I can find no second part.

[stealthbadger]

@LinkMEP Regan treated unions in the country quite differently. Between firing PATCO (all of it) and his handing over the NLRB to anti-union executives, he did a good job of crippling them (and that's just a start). Also, given that several of the major umbrella organizations that form the Tea Parties are run by GOP political consultants (and even the former GOP Speaker of the House Dick Armey, who runs FreedomWorks), the gap between the Tea Party and the GOP is more of an overlap. (cont)

[LinkMEP]

@stealthbadger Again Kneecaping is the Tea Party which is an admittiingly growing force within the Republican Pary as is the attacks upon first amendment.

Thats right, I forgot, everyone who doesn't agree with you is either a troll or an idiot.

[LinkMEP]

@stealthbadger I not sure how the numbers compare exactly but I looked into it and Democrats have plenty of Think Tanks themselves. MSNBC IS just as far to left as Fox is to the right. Fox and MSNBC have about the same balance of moderates and kooks.

I will accept evidence that Reagan was against the Unions. To see Reagan Condemn Poland for attacking a Union see "Ronald Reagan-Address to the Nation on Christmas and the Situation in Poland" On Youtube via MCamericanpresident.

[stealthbadger]

@stealthbadger between kneecapping the Department of Labor and supporting it?

And there really is no need to be picky about the Establishment clause of the First Amendment?

If you're trolling me, then hats off to you. Otherwise, you're an idiot. :D