Howard Dean actualy said this about the Supreme Court:

“The president and his right-wing Supreme Court think it is ‘okay’ to have the government take your house if they feel like putting a hotel where your house is…“

First off, President Bush hasn’t appointed any of the nine justices on this Supreme Court. John Roberts is the first appointee in over a decade. Second, if Dean is talking about the Kelo vs. New London case that allowed cities to use eminent domain to seize people’s homes and turn it over to developers, then he is truly an idiot. The five justices who voted in favor of taking homes were the liberals on the Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, John Stevens, Stephen Breyer, David Souter and Anthony Kennedy. It was the conservative block of Clarence Thomas, William Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia and Sandra O’Connor who voted against expanding the scope of the Takings Clause of the constitution.

Liberals forget one of other cases that caused an uproar this past session was the Raich vs. Ashcroft case involving the state of California and the legalization of medicinal marijuana [link]. Once again, it was the liberals who decided that the commerce clause of the constitution cancelled out the wishes of the state of California. The dissenters in Raich were the conservatives, Thomas, Rehnquist and O’Connor.

So while the left is getting all charged up over abortion, they seem to have no concern over the ever-expanding power of the federal government. And Howard Dean continues to make a horse’s ass of himself.

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