It’s driving me nuts to listen to the Alito confirmation hearings. Samuel Alito is asking for a lifetime appointment to the most powerful court in the United States, and yet he has refused to answer the most important questions he was asked. Time and time again, Judge Alito was asked straight forward, yes-or-no questions that anyone with a basic legal background should be able to answer. These were important questions, like: Should the President of the United States have the power to put wiretaps on Americans’ telephone lines without first obtaining a warrant or authorization from the FISA courts?
So, I admit it, I flew off the handle a little bit when I got an email this afternoon from the right wing American Family Association, telling me that Judge Alito deserves an up or down vote.
For those of you who are not Irregular Times readers, I’ll give you a summary of my experience with the American Family Association. I get emails from them, unsolicited, because some Republican signed me up on their web site under the name “littlejonnie_Atheist_Fag”. So, every time that the American Family Association sends an unwanted message to me, preaching about right wing morality, they call me “littlejonnie_Atheist_Fag”. That’s a right winger’s version of a joke. I prefer to see it as an irony.
Since I began getting these unsolicited messages from the American Family Association, I’ve been lectured at by them about the full gamut of extreme right wing obsessions, most of them having to do with sex. Honestly, I’ve never encountered such a group of sexually obsessed people as the American Family Association in my entire life. Yet, the AFA and its president, Donald Wildmon, do find time to throw in a mix in a few other subjects with its sexual tirades. I’ve been lectured about such weird things as:
At the end of all these weird sermons, the email always asks for money: “would you consider a small financial gift to help AFA continue these efforts? “ Using right wing paranoia to make money is pretty creepy in my book.
What’s even creepier is that, after sending me all these outlandish lectures demanding justice for weird imaginary affronts, the American Family Association still believes that it has the credibility necessary to go out and demand an up or down vote for their right wing compadre Samuel Alito.
Well, I’ll tell you what. Sure, AFA, I’ll support an up or down vote for Samuel Alito… as soon as Samuel Alito gives a yes or no answer to a yes or no question. Fair is fair.
