GOP Swears To Tell The "Truth-iness", A Smidgen Of The Truth, And Everything But The Truth

If you trust these bastards, you're a fool.

First, we had the Dispatch headline claiming that the "public is conflicted on health care law." The article said 56% of Americans are against the the Affordable Care Act, and 44% are for it. Even so, it reported that "a strong majority are nonetheless in favor of most of the provisions of the ACA".

As noted by stalwart truth-telling local blogger Dave Girves (click "Dave Girves" under Buster's Links), the piece goes on to explain that over a third of those "opposed" are actually strongly in favor of health care reform, but believe that the ACA didn't go far enough toward a true single-payer, universal care system. (We'll get there one of these days. We must.) So, as Dave points out, the real numbers are more like 64% approve of health care reform, 36% do not. But the Dispatch headline writers had different marching orders.

And then yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled that most of Arizona's Nazi-esque, Mexican-cleansing "Show Me Your Papers" law was unconstitutional. The SCOTUS said that immigrants do not have to carry their "papers" at all times, that they are permitted to seek jobs, and that they cannot be arrested without a warrant just because some cop doesn't like the way they look and "believes" they might be deportable. The Court did approve (for now) cops checking the immigration status of those stopped for other possible offenses, but said that this practice could very well at some future point be deemed to be unconstitutional racial profiling. And Buster hastens to add that when Arizona discovers an "illegal" immigrant, all they may do is notify the INS. Barring no other serious crime (like jay-walking or littering), the immigrant is in no serious jeopardy of anything. I'd say that law is pretty much toothless.

That said, the Douchepatch reported that the Court was "split" on the Arizona immigration law and had "kept the state's core policy". The harridan witch governor of Arizona Jan Brewer (just picture her with a pointy black hat) called the ruling "a victory for the rule of law." (Huh?) Mitt The Glove Romney said it "underscores the need for a president who will lead on this issue." (Double-huh?) And Antonin Scalia had an embarassing hissy-fit dissent, railing against Mexicans, Obama, gol-durn furriners, and anyone who wasn't a perfectly American immigrant from Italy such as himself.

These R-tard-o's -- Dispatch, Brewer, Romney, Scalia, et al. -- occupy a different world, an alternate reality. Whose reality will prevail? Scares me.