The Rosen Report

A July Fourth Bedtime Story...A Conversation Which We Are Pretty Sure Happened, August 10th, 1776-- From The Rosen Museum Of Unnatural History (A messenger delivers a letter to Lord Frederick North, Prime Minister of Britain-- ) LN: (reading) Oh! Mmmmhmmm. Uhh...oh no, dear me, drats! This is terrible, awful! I must away to see the King.  Courtier: He'll see you now your Lordship. KG3: (swinging his golf club) Whaaaat, waddya' want, can't you see I'm busy, spit it out Prime Boy.  LN: Uhhhnn, Your Highness, uh, we seem to have a slight tiff which has sprung up over across the pond which is a bit more than the usual trifle. How might I best explain? KG3: You're on the clock asshole, let's have it, and cut it out with this "Your Highness" crap, just call me "Third."  LN: Yes Your....oh, sorry, "Third." Well, we received a rather disturbing letter from the colonies today, and it seems that they've, uh, left.  KG3: Left? What the fuc...

(Photo credit Salon) Eye Of Newt, Toe Of Frog, Wool Of Batsh*t Crazy...How The "Jacobin Revolution" Of The GOP And Gingrich Brought Us Here-- Introduction-- It is important, I think, to rise above the anger and incredulity of the moment, and recognize that this week's Supreme Court assault on the US Constitutional system and the rights of the people it has served to protect, (at least to a degree) is not a recent phenomenon born of the rise of Trumpism. This week's decisions, like the one from a year ago overturning "Roe" is the result of a "long game" underway since the late 1970's at least. And rather than going "legalistic" in analyzing the history of precedents and cases, I think what is appropriate is to examine the political context surrounding it. After all, the functional solutions to this crisis reside with the untapped political power of "we the people," not a small working group of democratically-minded litigators...