Watching the Same Old show

ITS BEEN A BAD WEEK for the American right wing. First, the Supreme Court ruled that the great state of Texas is perpetrating a scam by enacting legislation ostensibly intended to protect women having abortions by mandating safer practices and conditions, but in reality intended to restrict access to abortion to greatly that it becomes all but impossible to obtain one. A woman who chooses to have an abortion is, in the eyes of the extreme right, sinning so badly that she hardly deserves any care at all, in reality. And yet, they want abortion to occur, so they say, only in conditions involving extreme expense and inconvenience, due to medical necessity. Even if one considers abortion to be murder, which is easy to do, its legality is such that access to it must not be restricted by needless regulation, says the high court. Its worth mentioning that rarely do abortions result in any sort of damage to a woman's health, and are in fact far safer than most other medical procedures. So says the court. then, there's the Hillary Clinton thing. The republicans have been trying for years to frame her as a criminal, and they aren't likely to stop trying this late in the process. But representative Trey Gowdy, who despises Hillary as much if not more than the rest of the gang, concluded in his report that the Obama administration and its use of the military was negligent failing to protect the unfortunate American ambassador to Libya and three other people who were murdered in 2012, but not criminally liable. So, the crusade to eliminate a woman's right to choose and the crusade to put Hillary Clinton behind bars will go on as usual but now from a position of far less strength. Indeed, it may be that someday Roe vs. Wade is overturned, and Hillary is doing time. Until then, on goes the struggle, and the best we can do might be to merely get a larger popcorn popper, sit back, and watch the show.