Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for December 16, 2021

Too bad Congress couldn’t have written and pass a law banning Ted Crud(z) from ever returning from Mexico. Then of course, what did Mexico do to deserve HIM coming there in the first place?

It took me a minute to remember the name.

Congress turned into a flash mob to pass a special law to overrule state courts.

"The Senate approved the measure on a voice vote in a nearly empty chamber Sunday. But some House Democrats blocked an immediate voice vote in that chamber, forcing the House Republican leadership to schedule a roll call at 12:01 a.m. Monday to approve the bill.

“In the extraordinary political drama, President Bush cut short a stay at his Texas ranch and raced back to the White House so he could sign the bill as soon as it was passed. Bush and other supporters of the bill hoped to get a speedy federal court decision restoring the feeding tube that has kept Schiavo alive for 15 years.”

Justice Scalia actually voted with the majority on the ruling that made burning the American Flag a constitutionally protected right. Stinkin’ Commie.

Pretty sure that congress (or any successful politician really) doesn’t give a rat’s damn about the needs of local townsfolk.

Congress only drafts and enacts federal legislation for people with money. And that’s because money can be used to convince local townsfolk to vote against their own interests.

Just yesterday I came across discussion of a Supreme Court decision where I actually agreed with Scalia’s dissent!

The relevant statute (18 U.S. Code § 924©(1)) reads “[A]ny person who … uses or carries a firearm [in the course of committing a crime of violence or drug trafficking], shall, in addition to the punishment provided for such crime … be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not less than 5 years.”

In the appeal Smith vs United States (1993), appellant Smith received the five extra years on his drug-possession sentence, because he had traded his gun for the cocaine. Does this count as “use of a firearm” in the commission of a crime? The majority held that it did; Scalia dissented, and I agree with him.

I was stunned.

So why don’t they include the Senate?

The good justice looks like the Godfather from the Scorece (sic) Godfather films.