Irresponsible x 2

Scalia and Durbin.

Dick Durbin, talking with Thom Hartmann on his radio show, bemoaned the recent sinking of the Phase Two Senate Intelligence Report into oblivion.  In that report, of course, was plenty of evidence that the administration lied and lied criminally. Durbin pointed out that what is said in those closed sessions of the Intelligence Committee must remain secret.  But what he couldn't explain is how not a single Senator was willing to walk out of a closed session and say -- without, of course, revealing privileged information -- that the administration was lying to the Senate and the American people blatantly and consistently. 

It should have been done.  It wasn't.  Not one of the senators on that committee can escape the label "irresponsible."

Antonin Scalia's response to the Supreme Court's decision yesterday was not only irresponsible but inflammatory. The New York Times reports:

Of the two dissenting opinions, Justice Antonin Scalia’s was the more apocalyptic, predicting “devastating” and “disastrous consequences” from the decision. “It will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed,” he said. “The nation will live to regret what the court has done today.”

The man is shameless as well as childish.  He's yet another armchair militarist who's willing to toss American's mother's sons at imagined enemies even as he implies that the Constitution is not worth sacrifice.  Isn't it fair to see him as no less an enemy of the rule of law than, say, an "islamofacist" in a cave in Afghanistan?

Comments

[Dan]

I'm not a scholar or historian but I would love to know if we've ever had a less dignified Justice than Nino. Perhaps we should start calling him Niño instead.