The US Supreme Court: is it working?  

Legislating from the bench is one of the biggest problems with our current system. The first thing I learned while studying law is that judges have more legislative power than the entire legislative branch since one judge can singlehandedly make a new law through use of precedent. Our legislative branch however requires debates and votes to even get a law through to the judicial branch.

funny isn't it? the contradiction?

And where we're the protesters on that one?

They were busy cheering him on for sleeping with an intern. I'll bet none of those protesters even knew about the war. Amazing how the media kept that so quiet.

I agree, however I think it will be MUCH worse for the U.S. if it's a court filled with conservatives than with liberals. Of course, I know there are many who will disagree with me on this...lol!
Annie

Well yeah because I think that Liberals tend to have a little more ok a lot more open minded thinking. And with that, I will just sit and wait for the onslaught lol.

You two simply feel that way because you are both liberals. There's not much more to be said than that. Most conservatives would say the exact opposite and such is the way of things.

I fully agree with you Taskr, although I do believe that Liberal are way more open minded than conservatives. If conservatives were more open minded I might be on that playing field but I'm not. But Taskr since you are here I have a question for you, do you have any idea why when the shock jocks are bashing women on their radio shows why the conservative women continue to listen to them? I'm am very curious about this any have asked and yet no one would like to explain it.

Not a clue Zephyr. Some people seem to enjoy being insulted. I've heard people call radio shows where the DJ is famous for being rude and yet they still get surprised and upset when the DJ insults and makes fun of them. That's his job, it's what he does, and it's how he makes his money. I can't explain why people buy into it, they just do.

On another note maybe the women listening to these shock jocks, think that they're talking about OTHER women. Kind of like when a comedian makes fun of men, women, black people, white people, etc. People of the group being mocked will listen and laugh.

I never thought of it that way because every time I have been to a comedy show the person on stage is usually not so prudish. But, either way good point, to each their own.

OK, Taskr, now don't yell at me...
You wrote, "On another note maybe the women listening to these shock jocks, think that they're talking about OTHER women. Kind of like when a comedian makes fun of men, women, black people, white people, etc. People of the group being mocked will listen and laugh."

I can't resist this, but maybe the women who like Rush do assume he's talking about "other women" and surely not them because he was actually making fun of Elizabeth Edwards for being intelligent.
Annie

Maybe Rush is having a midlife crisis, acting as though he is still in high school. I remember kids in high school making fun of the "nerdy" kids for being smart and whatnot.