Agh, he won't go away!

Just when I thought we'd seen the last of Alabama Supreme Court Chief
Justice Roy Moore, he rears his literally and metaphorically ugly head
once again - but this time Our Roy may have taken one too many steps
over the line.
You may recall that the Chief Justice was responsible for erecting a
5,300 pound granite monument of the Ten Commandments in the Alabama
Judicial Building, which a federal court subsequently ordered him to
remove (see Idiots passim).
Well guess what?
Being in charge of dishing out justice doesn't necessarily mean that
you have to follow the law yourself - yup, Roy is refusing to remove
the monument.
According to Mr. Above-The-Law himself, the "question is not whether I
will move the monument. It is not a question of whether I will disobey
or obey a court order...the real question is whether or not I will
deny the God that created us and endowed us with certain inalienable
rights and among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness."
Um, actually Jack, it's a question of whether you're going to move the
monument or whether Alabama is going to be fined $5000 a day for your
belligerence. "$5000 a day?"
I hear you cry.
"Why not just go in there with a forklift and get rid of the thing?"
Easier said than done, friends.
See, the House Republicans on-again-off-again love affair with states'
rights is on again - last week, according to the New York Times, they
"attached an amendment to an appropriations bill that would ban the
use of federal funds to enforce the order to remove the Ten
Commandments monument."
So much for the Constitution.
What a bunch of knuckleheads.
From The Democratic Underground
http://www.democraticunderground.com/
Harry