The good Senator Graham from South Carolina jerks tears from Sammy “The Sphincter” Alito’s chattel wife by apologizing for having to answer tough questions from Democrats. So, is he a closet bigot? His family knows. I’d lay 8-5 that over the course of their lives, his collective family has uttered “moolie” more than the GOP would like to know. But, what the heck, he was otherwise raised well, right?

Righties are obsessed with private morality, lefties with public morality. Righties care about that fetus you’re carrying or who you sleep with. They could care less that we’re bombing the bejesus out of some third world country, or that polar bears are dying because of global warming. You’re completely free to pillage the rest of the world, but you better behave at home.

Lefties care about what we’re doing on the other side of the globe, because we know it comes back to us eventually – we intrinsically understand that there is a law of karma at work. Lefties could care less about who you’re sleeping with.

This is why righties can’t stand socialism, they see it as restricting their freedom to operate as they will in the public domain, in one breath, and in the private it’s, shudder, Godless – you can do anything you want at home. Too much freedom for them, in the private sphere.

The righties idea of morality is tribal and fear based, looking up to the alpha male for protection – our God, our Father will take care of us, if we behave. And to hell with those who aren’t part of our tribe. And they project this out onto everyone, they think everyone else is out to take what they have, which they use to justify their own acts of aggression. It’s all based on fear.

The lefties idea of morality is modern and rational, it attempts to understand the whole world as a system, that what we do over here eventually feeds back to us here. Not everyone in the world operates this way – there really are people who want to take what we have – but it’s the only hope for a humane and peaceable world. It’s based on love.

Fear constrains vision, love opens it. It comes down to what Einstein called the only important question, whether the universe is friendly or not. Righties believe it isn’t, lefties believe it is.

The right believes in the power of the strong alpha male – this is what Alito’s views are all about. By contrast, the left believes in the power of We the People, which was a radical idea in the 1700s, too radical for the regressive right of today.

I want the good guys to win here as badly as anyone but to what end?Lets face it, the republican senate would rubber stamp the grand wizard of the kkk if bush nominated “it” and rather then ask the grand wizzard questions they would spend their time defending the noimation.And bloggers like captain ed would trip overthemselves to say the nominee was wonderful.

There is not going to be any justice here, whether this jack ass is installed or not, because if this one doesn’t make it, Bush has a potentially WORSE one to put in his place, maybe he would nominate brownie next ,, he does a heck of a job , you know.

I think we should turn off the life support on our rights and freedoms , because they are dead.All we can do now is move forward.