June 6, 2018 By Chris Varones
There's a good line in the campy sci-fi horror flick The Return of Swamp Thing from 1989. Appalled to discover that her diabolical scientist father is – surprise! – hatching an evil plot to live forever, the heroine asks: "Immortality? Yuk! What did you do, sell your soul to the devil?" "More like a lease with an option to buy," her father replies.
Few loaded euphemisms better sum up the goings-on in the sprawling, drain-proof swamp that is Washington, D.C. But now, the worst thing the swamp has produced is on trial for its life, and it will take far more than devilish doublespeak to save it.
In a matter of weeks or days, the U.S. Supreme Court will render a decision on gerrymandering, the dark art where politicians draw political district boundaries to choose their voters instead of the other way around.....Conservatives expect the Supreme Court to interpret the original intent of the Constitution and leave the legislating to Congress. They also are forever vigilant against any attempt, subtle or overt, to weaken individual freedom. Striking down gerrymandering is consistent with those aims. It also would send a message to all politicians to serve through the spirit of the Constitution, do the hard job they were elected to do and let citizens do theirs. Nothing could be more exceptional, or more American. .....Read more
There's a good line in the campy sci-fi horror flick The Return of Swamp Thing from 1989. Appalled to discover that her diabolical scientist father is – surprise! – hatching an evil plot to live forever, the heroine asks: "Immortality? Yuk! What did you do, sell your soul to the devil?" "More like a lease with an option to buy," her father replies.
Few loaded euphemisms better sum up the goings-on in the sprawling, drain-proof swamp that is Washington, D.C. But now, the worst thing the swamp has produced is on trial for its life, and it will take far more than devilish doublespeak to save it.
In a matter of weeks or days, the U.S. Supreme Court will render a decision on gerrymandering, the dark art where politicians draw political district boundaries to choose their voters instead of the other way around.....Conservatives expect the Supreme Court to interpret the original intent of the Constitution and leave the legislating to Congress. They also are forever vigilant against any attempt, subtle or overt, to weaken individual freedom. Striking down gerrymandering is consistent with those aims. It also would send a message to all politicians to serve through the spirit of the Constitution, do the hard job they were elected to do and let citizens do theirs. Nothing could be more exceptional, or more American. .....Read more
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