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Study: Bush Judges Most Conservative on Rights

The study linked above shows that the judges President Bush has put on the federal bench are the least likely to recognize a variety of rights, including abortion rights, gay rights, and First Amendment freedoms. Given another four years to appoint new judges, Bush could turn back the clock on abortion to the dark days of back alleys and coat hangers, and he could also use the courts to ensure that gays and lesbians don't achieve equal rights in his lifetime. But keep thinking the two candidates are pretty much the same, you wacky swing voters.

Meanwhile, Dick Cheney is convinced that our economic data is incomplete because it doesn't include all the money people are making selling their stuff on eBay. I think John Edwards offered a pretty good response: "If we only included bake sales and how much money kids make at lemonade stands, this economy would really be cooking."

I hope Cheney isn't serious. I know some people can do OK with eBay, but it's basically a big garage sale; do we include revenue from those in our economic data? Should we? Perhaps the party of smaller government would like to create a form to report garage-sale revenue to the IRS? C'mon, Cheney, stick to your message about how the terrorists are just itching for a President Kerry. This whole eBay tangent has nothing to do with your main message of FEAR. Launching into long talks about his gay daughter, nattering on about the virtues of online auctions--and here I thought Cheney was the disciplined one on the Republican ticket?