Pro-bullying lawmaker appointed judge

In the civilized world, the act of serial harassment in schools is taboo.

But in BushWorld, supporting school harassment is a stepping stone to any government or corporate position you want.

Meet Dan Kelly. Until recently, Kelly was the Republican floor leader in the Kentucky Senate. He was perhaps best known for his opposition to a bill that directed schools to enact policies against student harassment.

That's the type of bill you'd think nobody would oppose. But Kelly offered several excuses. Central to his repertoire of arguments was that the bill would saddle serial harassers with a "label" that would follow them around for years.

Well, yes. Why shouldn't it? It should follow them around for life. Harassers label their victims for life, so why not?

Hypocritically, Kelly refused to support legislation that would allow folks to remove material posted on the Internet by people impersonating them. As a result, this material remains online forever - even after the victims are dead and buried.

Dan Kelly also reportedly complained that the bill to combat school harassment violated the Mormon church's laws. Even if the bill did violate a church's laws, it's still not a reason to oppose the bill. All this proves is that Kelly doesn't believe in separation of church and state, and that he thinks he should be allowed to impose his religion on the state's citizenry.

Because of Kelly's support for school harassment, he should have been expelled from the Kentucky Senate on the spot. But by that time, the rule that governed Kentucky was that his support of bullies led him to be considered a demigod rather than a pariah.

Now this child-hater has been appointed to a circuit court judgeship in central Kentucky. This follows a recommendation by a nominating committee.

Some have speculated that appointing Kelly as a judge is a ploy by the Democratic governor to free up a senate seat for the Democrats to possibly win. If that's the goal, this is a miserable way to accomplish it.

Dan Kelly is an absolute nut.

(Source: http://bluegrasspolitics.bloginky.com/2009/10/26/kelly-appointed-to-judgeship)