Byrd's Turn
As Senators Durbin, Schumer, and Kennedy were addressing (wait for it...) moveonPAC today on the so-called "nuclear option" outlawing filibusters of judicial nominees, it was Senator Adolph Byrd's turn to say something roaringly stupid.
Byrd (D-WV), the chamber’s longest-serving member, used the Ides of March anniversary to invoke Julius Caesar’s murder and told The Hill that “freedom of speech in the Senate is about to be assassinated.”
“Let’s don’t let it happen,” he added. “Fight.”
Let me assure my readers that I would dearly love to see somebody sew this old bastard's lips shut. Kennedy's as well, except for a small hole for the drool runoff.
But that isn't what is being proposed by majority Republicans. What is being proposed is that all the President's judicial nominees get an up or down floor vote at the end of floor debate. If "free speech" is now to be defined as "never shutting up," well, I suppose women really will rule the world (No, no, not you, honey; now put down that rolling pin slooooowly...), but in the mean time it would mean the continued tyranny of a minority that cannot reconcile itself to no longer being in power. That reconcilation obviously needs to be administered by the majority, and activating the "constitutional option" is precisely the way to do it.
The "assassination" imagery is just the sort of overheated nonsense we've come to expect from BizarroDonks. Being a self-styled historian, I'm sure the Kleagle thought it was clever to analogize the murder of Julius Caesar, both because it's a reference few would immediately grasp (aside from my ten-year-old son yesterday at dinner) and because it's a moderate improvement over his Nazi parallel of two weeks ago. But if anybody is being tyrannical by suppressing the will of the Senate by force, it's Byrd and his scorched-earth cohorts, who appear willing to do just about anything to escape the consequences of their three-election losing streak. Except, that is, dumping the extreme Left and moving back toward the center.
Frankly, it's a measure of how beyond the pale the Democrats have gotten that ordinarily obsequious, lily-livered Pachyderms have been pushed to the point of taking action they should have resorted to several years ago. But once the "button" is pushed and Dirty Harry's rebellion is crushed, the nation and its GOP government can finally (heh) move on.
And ancient obstructionists like Senator "White Nigger" can mutter cleverly to themselves in the pristine irrelevance they will have so richly earned, where nobody will ever have to listen to them again.
[Hat tip: CQ]
Byrd (D-WV), the chamber’s longest-serving member, used the Ides of March anniversary to invoke Julius Caesar’s murder and told The Hill that “freedom of speech in the Senate is about to be assassinated.”
“Let’s don’t let it happen,” he added. “Fight.”
Let me assure my readers that I would dearly love to see somebody sew this old bastard's lips shut. Kennedy's as well, except for a small hole for the drool runoff.
But that isn't what is being proposed by majority Republicans. What is being proposed is that all the President's judicial nominees get an up or down floor vote at the end of floor debate. If "free speech" is now to be defined as "never shutting up," well, I suppose women really will rule the world (No, no, not you, honey; now put down that rolling pin slooooowly...), but in the mean time it would mean the continued tyranny of a minority that cannot reconcile itself to no longer being in power. That reconcilation obviously needs to be administered by the majority, and activating the "constitutional option" is precisely the way to do it.
The "assassination" imagery is just the sort of overheated nonsense we've come to expect from BizarroDonks. Being a self-styled historian, I'm sure the Kleagle thought it was clever to analogize the murder of Julius Caesar, both because it's a reference few would immediately grasp (aside from my ten-year-old son yesterday at dinner) and because it's a moderate improvement over his Nazi parallel of two weeks ago. But if anybody is being tyrannical by suppressing the will of the Senate by force, it's Byrd and his scorched-earth cohorts, who appear willing to do just about anything to escape the consequences of their three-election losing streak. Except, that is, dumping the extreme Left and moving back toward the center.
Frankly, it's a measure of how beyond the pale the Democrats have gotten that ordinarily obsequious, lily-livered Pachyderms have been pushed to the point of taking action they should have resorted to several years ago. But once the "button" is pushed and Dirty Harry's rebellion is crushed, the nation and its GOP government can finally (heh) move on.
And ancient obstructionists like Senator "White Nigger" can mutter cleverly to themselves in the pristine irrelevance they will have so richly earned, where nobody will ever have to listen to them again.
[Hat tip: CQ]
posted by JASmius at 2:16 PM
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