No Pusillanimous Centrist Can Replace This Liberal Lion

The radical anti-American fanatics on the Supreme Court shit out another taliban-tastic ruling to bring Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine and James Madison roaring out of their graves in fury.

From Steve Benen:

In Salazar v. Buono, the high court considered a congressionally approved deal that made the land surrounding a cross in the Mojave National Preserve private property. Five conservative justices approved.

A badly fractured Supreme Court, with six justices writing opinions, reopened the possibility on Wednesday that a large cross serving as a war memorial in a remote part of the Mojave Desert may be permitted to remain there.

The 5-to-4 decision provided an unusually vivid glimpse into how deeply divided the court is on the role religious symbols may play in public life and, in particular, the meanings conveyed by crosses in memorials for fallen soldiers.

In one of the oddities of the ruling, the court suggested that the Christian cross isn't necessarily a symbol of Christianity.

In a dissent that effectively tore the majority to shreds, Justice John Paul Stevens strongly disagreed, "Making a plain, unadorned Latin cross a war memorial does not make the cross secular. It makes the war memorial sectarian." He added, in a dissent endorsed by Justices Ginsburg and Sotomayor, "The cross is not a universal symbol of sacrifice. It is the symbol of one particular sacrifice, and that sacrifice carries deeply significant meaning for those who adhere to the Christian faith."

Try to imagine anyone on President Obama's short list to replace Stevens writing "a dissent that effectively tore the majority to shreds." Or don't; it's impossible.

As for President Pollyanna's search for someone who can draw into a majority the same lying traitors who unconstitutionally annointed Smirky dictator, he'll find a unicorn first.