I believe I have previously mentioned once or twice--or three or four times, maybe five, possibly six, certainly not more than seven--that the GOP COE (Coalition of Extremists) is showing signs of cracking. Well, the cracks are getting wider.

Joe Murray writes a scathing criticism of the Emperor in the Agape Press--house organ of the Xtian fundie American Family Association--accusing him of abandoning the 'culture war' they hired him to fight in order to go off adventuring in the search for a 'global hegemony unwanted by the rest of the world'.

In his zeal to fight the monsters that reside abroad, George W. Bush appears to have forgotten the very monsters that have set up camp in his own presidential backyard. Abortion, euthanasia, explicit obscenity, and homosexual marriage all encompass a cultural war in which this President was drafted to fight. Columnist John Leo, in analyzing the Bush mandate, correctly points out that "exit polls showed that at 22 percent, 'moral values' was the biggest issue on the minds of voters, and four-fifths of the 22 percent had voted for Bush." Thus, in an election that parodied that of 1960 and 2000, it was the conservative cadets that pushed Bush over the top.

But with 4,000 unborn children perishing daily, Jack Kevorkian knocking on the doors of countless elderly persons, and the celebration of the sexuality explicit on the airwaves of our nation, this question must be posed: where is the Commander in Chief whom this country elected to fight the cultural war? He, my friends, is in Iraq, Afghanistan, and now potentially Iran and North Korea. In a quest for a global hegemony unwanted by the rest of the world, this President has abdicated his post to fight the cultural ills that afflict a weary populace at home, and, even further, may be violating the very doctrine he now espouses.

Oops. The veil over this threat is tissue-paper thin.

But Murray isn't satisfied with merely criticizing and threatening. He offers a solution to the abortion question that is, shall we say, novel: Ignore the Supreme Court and make it illegal in spite of them. After all, what can they do about it?

Does the President have power to nullify Roe v. Wade? Yes. Will this President use it? Don't bet on it.

When Chief Justice John Marshall tried to force a national bank upon President Andrew Jackson, Jackson responded, "Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it."

What the hell. The SCOTUS doesn't have an army, the prez does. If he tells them to fuck off, what are they going to do, declare war by throwing their law books at him?

The Constitution doesn't much impress Xtian fundie theocrats, and the SCOTUS is an outright enemy, even one as conservative as this one is, because they are, after all, the ones who decided Roe and won't repeal their decision. That makes them murderers, and why should the prez bother to obey murderers?

This is what GV Karl is up against in the battle to keep the fragile GOP COE from falling apart. They ain't gonna make it easy. They voted for Bush in the expectation that he would pack the SCOTUS with anti-abortion justices who would repeal Roe, and here it is Feb already and it hasn't happened yet. They're not happy, and an unhappy fanatic is a dangerous fanatic.

This could get ugly.

(Link courtesy of AmericaBlog)