From OpEdNews
By Mark S. Tucker

Bafflement over the choice of Samuel Alito, water-carrier – a present and prospective function evidenced glaringly not only in his bizarre resumés for choice job assignments but also in his case decisions, a matter of little more than code-kissing prospective and to-hand masters – is even more striking in that it’s yet a mystery to Liberals. Recently, semi-syndicated teacher-writer Carolyn Baker took a cheap swipe at Noam Chomsky, calling him a phobic when it comes to conspiracy theories. Ms. Baker lacks a sense of humor. Chomsky, in his extremely dry wit, has ever referred to conspiracies as not indeed being conspiracies precisely because they’re often so damnably obvious [the true dilemma for both Chomsky and Baker lies in the term's semantic/rhetorical problems, which I'll be covering in a later article], meaning, as any analytical mind discerns, that the much ballyhooed hidden side of conspiracism is not hidden at all. That is what’s before us now: a conspiracy so obvious that it’s spitting profusely in our faces and we think it’s raining.

Machiavelli, for one, laid it all out and, if you want to see its flesh, you need merely know where to look. That’s precisely what the phobic Chomsky avers and it’s what too many of us are missing, simultaneously the key to Alito.

One must see the entire picture to understand which vacancy in the puzzle the prospective Chief Justice is to occupy. It isn’t a seat, it’s a need. Bush’s latest candidate is, it should not be too difficult to understand, the logical next step forward from the rather dim Clarence Thomas (widely commented upon as the most depressingly shallow Justice, perhaps ever) through Catechism boy John Roberts to the Third-Level Manager spot – a ring-leader, in other words, who may be depended upon to do the bidding of the not-so-shadow-lords. What’s desired isn’t a set of brainiacs contemplating deep legalistics or their underlying philosophical questions but a gaggle of opportunists who managed to withstand the maddening rigors of law school, know lawyers to be key facilitators for the ruling class, and have just enough brains to have earned the license while being completely devoid of a micro-ounce of originality, compassion, or empathy.

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