They will try to stack it anyway...? What’s the diff?
If we lose the elections in 2010 on a "repeal" platform, and then the Court overturns in early 2011, they will justify stacking the Court on the grounds of implementing the people's will.
Obama politicized the Court during the SOTU speech this year. Hard to go back to where we were before.
If we win the elections and a lame-duck Congress passes a bill to increase the number of Justices to 19 to make the Court "more representative", and then confirms a liberal slate, we will have enough momentum to carry us to a resounding victory in 2012.
My thought: even if they don't stack the Court, we should do so if we win big in 2012, and overturn Roe and a bunch of other bad precedents.
The Revolution was, by Garet Garrett
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2185147/posts
They set themselves down in sequence as follows:
The first, naturally, would be to capture the seat of government.
The second would be to seize economic power.
The third would be to mobilize by propaganda the forces of hatred.
The fourth would he to reconcile and then attach to the revolution the two great classes whose adherence is indispensable but whose interests are economically antagonistic, namely, the industrial wage earners and the farmers, called in Europe workers and peasants.
The fifth would be what to do with business — whether to liquidate or shackle it.
These five would have a certain imperative order in time and require immediate decisions because they belong to the program of conquest. That would not be the end. What would then ensue? A program of consolidation. Under that head the problems continue.)
The sixth, in Burckhardt’s devastating phrase, would be “the domestication of individuality” — by any means that would make the individual more dependent upon government.
The seventh would be the systematic reduction of all forms of rival authority.
The eighth would be to sustain popular faith in an unlimited public debt, for if that faith should break the government would be unable to borrow, if it could not borrow it could not spend, and the revolution must be able to borrow and spend the wealth of the rich or else it will be bankrupt.
The ninth would be to make the government itself the great capitalist and enterpriser, so that the ultimate power in initiative would pass from the hands of private enterprise to the all-powerful state.