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Octafish

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30. THE Shaun McCutcheon is from Alabama?
Mon Apr 7, 2014, 01:31 PM
Apr 2014

That's where Karl Rove and Rob Riley fixed the Alabama Supreme Court.



How Karl Rove Took Over the Alabama Supreme Court and Created a ‘No Win Zone’ for Citizens

How the Corporate Republican Courts Turned From ‘Tort Reform’ to ‘Sovereign Immunity’ for Hospitals and Destroyed Americans’ Sixth Amendment Jury Rights

by Glynn Wilson
New American Journal/Locust Fork Net, October 23, 2012

How did Karl “Turd Blossom” Rove, the adopted son of a gay man with pierced balls and a drunk, drug addict mother, become such a powerful and destructive force in American politics?

In the South we have a long history of asking people where they’re from, about their family. We have a need to know something about their mama. Yet as an American demographic, white Southern males over 50 have been listening to the politicians handled by Karl Rove and his ilk for three decades now. How did this happen?

While Karl Rove’s personal story may be a sad and tragic one, it may also explain why he became such a vicious, mean political animal. But that does not mean we have to listen to him.

Was it not clear enough in 2008 that Rove’s crowning political achievement, fooling the American establishment and the people into electing one of the worst presidents in U.S. history twice, George W. Bush, that his brand of Machiavellian, scorched-earth politics is bad for American democracy and the global economy?

Now, according to all the available evidence, including the reporting in Craig Unger’s book Boss Rove: Inside Karl Rove’s Secret Kingdom of Power, Rove sits on the largest political war chest in human history. He has usurped the National Republican Party’s fund raising authority. He’s using millions of dollars from billionaire donors to try to help Massachusetts Mormon Mitt Romney unseat President Barack Obama from the White House, and he’s now allowed to do it in a totally unaccountable way due to the conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court’s controversial ruling in Citizens United vs. the Federal Election Commission.

How is it possible that no one in the American news media been able to bury this horrendous political animal and stop him from destroying what’s left of this experiment in government of, by and for “the people?”

CONTINUED...

http://blog.locustfork.net/2012/10/how-karl-rove-took-over-the-alabama-supreme-court-and-created-a-no-win-zone-for-citizens/



How indeed.

Coincidentally, Pruneface Reagan, Poppy Bush and Smirko McCokespoon Baby Doc Bush fixed the United States Supreme Court.

It really is a small world!

Hey! Is that the most interesting baby in the world, pacalo?
“You’ve got a situation where sometimes there’s no good guys” frazzled Apr 2014 #1
Shuler got canned from his gig at University of Alabama for blogging about Siegelman. Octafish Apr 2014 #2
He is famous for his exposures of the Karl Rove Plot against Siegelman, an egregious travesty of sabrina 1 Apr 2014 #7
The NYT didn't say anything: a First Amendment attorney frazzled Apr 2014 #12
This message was self-deleted by its author sabrina 1 Apr 2014 #7
Let's face it. We all need whistle-blower protection. Baitball Blogger Apr 2014 #3
Agree. Two journalists were arrested for taking pictures from the sidewalk in Ohio. Octafish Apr 2014 #4
Going a bit off tangent... Baitball Blogger Apr 2014 #5
Absolutely Agree. Octafish Apr 2014 #16
WTF onecaliberal Apr 2014 #6
He made an enemy of Karl Rove and his tainted judges in Alabama when he wrote relentlessly about sabrina 1 Apr 2014 #9
Legal Schnauzer publisher Roger Shuler released after more than 5 months in Alabama jail Octafish Apr 2014 #17
Nothing to see here, just move along Augiedog Apr 2014 #10
It's as if an empire of evil had hijacked the government of the United States. Octafish Apr 2014 #18
Know your BFEE: Siegelman Judge is a big-time War Profiteer Octafish Apr 2014 #22
K&R! WTF has happened to this country? Enthusiast Apr 2014 #11
Late stage Terminal Unregulated Free Market Capitalism. nt Zorra Apr 2014 #20
The question is whether Shuler had any evidence to back up what he wrote and if so, what JDPriestly Apr 2014 #13
Excellent point: To Win, the Truth needs to be on his side. Octafish Apr 2014 #27
Allegations, accusations, but what is the evidence? Gossip? JDPriestly Apr 2014 #31
Shuler wrote: ''sources.'' So, there's more than one. Octafish Apr 2014 #32
Alabama -> Talibana nt pragmatic_dem Apr 2014 #14
''This silence by groups like the Society for Professional Journalism is deafening.'' Octafish Apr 2014 #29
professional organizations are not always on our side... pragmatic_dem Apr 2014 #35
K & R !!! WillyT Apr 2014 #15
It's like the Alabama GOP is running the country...National Bloggers Club? Ali Akbar? Octafish Apr 2014 #36
He needs to hire a lawyer and listen to them. nt msanthrope Apr 2014 #19
If only he could afford a good lawyer! Octafish Apr 2014 #34
Why is Alabama allowed its own third-world justice system without checks & balances pacalo Apr 2014 #21
THE Shaun McCutcheon is from Alabama? Octafish Apr 2014 #30
That would indicate a conspiracy. But, but, but....conspiracies never happen! nt ChisolmTrailDem Apr 2014 #23
That's what the controlled media have said for half a century. Octafish Apr 2014 #33
Insisting on representing yourself in numerous court cases, when you have no legal training, struggle4progress Apr 2014 #24
It may be that's exactly what you're supposed to think. Octafish Apr 2014 #25
Here's the NY Times in September 2007, three years before the 29 September 2010 struggle4progress Apr 2014 #26
Only thing is that Legal Schnauzer tied the fellow to his roots with the Alabama GOP. Octafish Apr 2014 #28
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