Tuesday, January 04, 2005

 

My Sentiments Exactly: "Stand Up, Senator!"

The difference this time politically for any Senator who stands up is that this fight is not about and must not be about replacing Bush with Kerry. This is about making sure that the greatest democracy in the history of the world lives up to that title.

Look, we're not being "unrealistic" here. What this parliamentary maneuver buys us, effectively, is a two-hour joint-session-of-Congress hearing, in the white-hot media spotlight, about how rotten the state of our democracy has become. (Given the Bolsheviki parliamentary maneuvers lately of the GOP Congress -- by which Democrats have been effectively cut out of the lawmaking process entirely -- we can argue that this was our only remaining venue for airing our grievances.)

Yes, it's a "suicide mission." Go ask Nathan Hale about those, and about his only "regrets" in that regard.

posted by Michael 9:37 PM