For those of you who think that the Bush administration doesn't care about good, honest, hard-working Americans, think again. Taking time out from their busy schedule of pardoning moonshiners and just generally destroying America, the White House has dispatched the Solicitor General of the United States to put the power and prestige of the nation alongside a distingusihed citizen who has been egregiously wronged by an out-of-control federal judiciary: former Playboy Playmate and current substance abuse expert Anna Nicole Smith.
This AP article tries to understand the reasons for the administration's intervention:
She is trying to collect millions of dollars from the estate of J. Howard Marshall II, the oil tycoon she married in 1994 when he was 89 and she was a 26-year-old topless dancer in Houston. Marshall died in 1995.Am I the only one who thinks the president's horndog brother Neil Bush had a hand in this? (And I say "a hand." The other one was doubtlessly busy.)
Like Marshall, President Bush was a Texas oil man. Both attended Yale. Both held government positions in Washington.
There are differences. Marshall had a penchant for strippers, and the court record before the justices is one of poverty, greed, sex and family rivalry.
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like my father always says "boobs of a feather, jiggle together" or something like that
I've just realized that this post will only further convince Travis G that we're trolling for Google porn traffic. Damn.
And my next post, on the need for the enlargment of the country's penal system, will only deepen those suspicisions.
That will be a hairy bush of an topic. Potentially barely legal.
What was Neil's other hand doing? Picking at his herpes sores?
You know, I usually can't help but look at pictures of ANS, but that one is rough. Looks like she's having a bad poop or something.
A reader (a conservative friend of mine from the real world who didn't want to subject himself to our rapier wits) emailed me an interesting comment on this.
The article does actually explain exactly why the feds are intervening: "The Bush administration's filings in the case are technical. Without getting into the details of the family squabble, Solicitor General Paul Clement said that the justices should protect federal court jurisdiction in disputes."
My friend points out that there's actually a conservative principle/issue being mauled here: states rights. Why is the admin trying to argue that a state matter (divorce proceedings) should be heard at the federal level?
Neil's other hand was on his "little derrick."
I think the violation of state's rights on this issue is actually consistent with their general interest in marriage these days -- they want federal standards over the institution to prevent the icky gays from marryin' and as a result they need to have federal supremacy over all facets of it, including the strippers'n'geezers combination.
The states' rights flip-flop is all a product of who's in control of the states and who's in control of the federal government. When it was Clinton in charge of the White House and GOP governors, the states reigned supreme. Now that it's Bush facing more and more Dem governors, the federal gov't gets the lead.
It's just another example of Republican Calvinball.
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