Originally Posted by roachboy

[...] it would have pushed the ultra-right, which seem to be all that remains of the right now that the republican party is essentially in bed with the militia movement across the tea bagger coalition, into making arguments that would be crazy for them to make---like the uninsured should not be treated with the same dignity as others, that dignity correlates with income, that there are no human rights. and you've seen it---that asshat glenn beck and others arguing that social justice is code for communism, etc.

the constitutional questions are subsidiary to political questions, and even those quaint strict construction folk know this given that strict construction is itself a politics in which it is politically acceptable to toss around quaint outmoded terms like "objectivity" which of course means really "written from a viewpoint sympathetic to mine"---which is what "objectivity" has always meant--a rhetoric of neutrality masking political positions built into the arguments or viewpoint of a piece---which is why the notion is quaint.