The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

[Alex]

So, a lot of people are upset by the Supreme Court's partial birth abortion ruling yesterday.

Since I think the point where we sanctify life is pretty much an arbitrary decision I don't really have a strong opionion either way and we're in splitting hairs territory. Two inches farther and it is a human being with full rights, two inches farther back and you're within your right so get a dwarf to stick a hand up there just to punch on it for a while.

But there are a special subgroup of people complaining about the ruling, that feel the law should have been struck down as unconstitutional. And those would be certain Congressman who voted for the law in the first place (such as Harry Reid).

Since no new information has come forward on the constitutional merits of this law I can only assume that Mr. Reid voted for a bill he believed unconstitutional for political expediency and with the unstated assumption that a court would strike it down.

In a just world, would not voting for a law you believe unconstitutional be something bordering on treason?

(On a different issue I expect to find a lot of Congressman in the same boat on the suspension of habeus corpus.)