Dumb, Dumber, and Dumbest

My office has been shorthanded this week, and today "real" work finally overwhelmed even the snippets of free time I'd previously had for blogging. Guess I'll have to either learn how to stay awake all the time or lobby Congress to graft four to six more hours onto the standard day.

Anyway, I just thought I'd relay the expressions of astonished dismay uttered last night, following the Democrats' resumption of filibuster hostilities against John Bolton, by Darth Queeg, his ass-kissing li'l buddy, and that sublime superfluity known as Mike DeWine:

"It is unfortunate," conceded Senator Mike DeWine, Republican of Ohio and a prominent member of the so-called Gang of 14 who drew up the judicial compromise. "It is too bad. But the deal was on judges, not anything else." ...

Pontius Pilate couldn't have washed his hands with any more cynical self-consciousness.

"In this atmosphere of trust, you have to take people's word," said Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, as he left the Senate chamber. ...

You mean like any Republican voter is ever going to take your word again?

"Atmosphere of trust"?!?!?

"This is what is disappointing," said Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina and another one of the Gang of 14. "The spirit of the deal was that we can do better if we all try."

Note that this was said while his tongue was firmly ensconsed in "Sailor's" rectal orifice.

I guess that comment earns Graham a new nickname: The Stuart Smalley of Capitol Hill. Next he'll be building camp fires and strumming folk ballads on the Senate floor.

*sigh* I dunno. Maybe the two above who aren't Sith masters can somehow be lured back to Republican lines. But that presumes that either man's capacity for self-abasement is finite. And from these comments, those are vast depths yet to be plumbed.