Postscript on Digby

Be sure to read Digby's treatise below about conservatives' contempt for all norms of democratic decency. A quote about Bush v. Gore: "[T]hey knew we knew they hadn't really won. That a strictly partisan 5-4 decision of the Supreme Court ratified that maneuver was perhaps one of the most shocking attacks on the spirit of American democracy yet. Supreme Court Justice Scalia even made a point of saying that there was no right to vote in the constitution, which is true. But I don't think many Americans believed before that day that a Supreme Court justice would use that fact as a way to justify installing a man in the presidency who hadn't been the people's choice. Now we know."

It's important to never forget how monstrous that ruling truly was. Just how monstrous? Read this.

She also notes the next step in the madness was the recall of a duly elected Democratic governor in California. I reported on the insanity at the time, in which one of the strategists admitted to me they conceived it as a hustle from start to finish:

When I notice Paule spinning a coin between his fingers like it's a chip, I ask him if he's a poker player. He confirms that he is, and then he says that all elections are poker games. He tells the story of the jackpot his fellow Republicans are about to rake in—with an elegance that cannot be improved upon, just 17 words.

"We found an opponent with a really weak hand; we just kept raising and raising the stakes."

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