WTF Is It Now?!?

The Devil gets the benefit of law

I know Maru has commented on this story already, but I can't let the chance pass to note how suddenly the Rethuglicans have discovered that they lurve the Constitution after all. Suddenly it's not just "a goddamn piece of paper" anymore, not merely a hindrance to their power madness. Monica Goodling is lucky there's anything of it left for her to protect herself with, and she should be grateful.

Evil, hypocritical fucks!

--divageek

ROPER: So now you'd give the Devil benefit of law!

MORE: Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?

ROPER: I'd cut down every law in England to do that!

MORE: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you-where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast-man's laws, not God's-and if you cut them down-and you're just the man to do it-d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then?

(from Robert Bolt's play about St. Thomas More, A Man for All Seasons)