Good and Hard

H.L. Mencken once said “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.”

That quote was recalled to me today by a good friend. We were talking about something else at the time, but I couldn’t help thinking this might be a good time for the Democrats to just adopt it as their mantra, shut up, and let the current cabal do its worst.

Alito, at least according to what I’ve been reading, may not be as bad as the Dems think, that bit about spousal notification notwithstanding. I figure sometimes people will often make different votes when they know they are losing than when they know they might sway the decision. I can’t figure any other rationale for that one, other than he’s just messing with us. Or, he’s really still into that old wife is chattel thing.

But, without rehashing all the things the Bushies have done to screw up the country, maybe the Senate Dems should let them just have Alito’s up or down vote, put him on the bench, because there’s no good way to stop him, and let him, Thomas and Scalia start chipping away at all the rights that have been won since 1964.

All those moderate suburban Republicans who voted for Bush, when they knew in their hearts they were making a pact with the Christian right wing devils, will wonder what happened when the government starts giving it to them–good and hard.

The lesson should start to sink in before November 2006.