So said she yesterday, right before she started shilling for her new U.S. Constitution toilet paper. “Wipe your ass with our superseded liberties every day!”
I’m actually starting to think I might want “health care reform” to pass, because if it does, the Democrats will be forced into continuous hard defense, and might get bloodied even worse in November. ‘Course, there is Mark Steyn’s valid concern that Republicans wouldn’t have the stomach to repeal it, because they’re always just so giddy to be back in power, you know.
No, I still don’t think I really think that. I want the current effort to fail.
And go read kemtee at Drive-By Thinking, please. As usual, she’s right, though she’s remarkably old-fashioned and sentimental, thinking that quoting the U.S. Constitution will make one damned bit of difference.
Finally, Ramesh Ponnuru has a good and useful deconstruction of the White House’s eleventh hour rhetoric.
Folks, there is seriously nasty crap going on in the Capitol right now. If you think this is partisan politics as usual, you are very wrong, and your capacity for self-delusion may well be limitless. We’re way off in the weeds here, on the cusp of a legislative abuse most unbefitting of a supposed constitutional republic.
Sometimes I can’t believe how far gone we are. God help us if this “passes.”
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I know. Next thing you know I’ll be wearing dresses and cooking. I guess I’m just a cockeyed optimist, my dear Bo. (Besides, it’s like spraying a roach with Raid. They just get pissed off. And there’s nothing I like more than pissing people off.)
But you hit the nail on the head: this is just the tip of the iceberg. In all the years of politicking on the hill, this double-dealing and flouting of rules is the worst it’s been. What makes me sickest is that there’s no effort to hide any of this anymore. The brazen attitudes of the offenders… and why? Precisely as Mr. Steyn stated. No cojones on the other side of the aisle. This need to please coupled with the roll-over attitude. Pfah.
With very few exceptions, the house needs to be cleaned. But will it do any good?
Ugh. I feel nauseous.
kemtee: I have long opposed explicit term limits, being of the school of thought that says we have term limits already: they’re called elections. I’m considering my position carefully, though.
Dad said keep senators at six years and limit them to one term, and bump representatives to four years and limit them to one term. Turn over a sixth of the Senate every year, and a fourth of the House every year. (That’s way too much amending to ever happen, but it’s fun to think about.) ‘Course, maybe we don’t need amendments. Pelosi and Slaughter are demonstrating that we can apparently just blatantly ignore any provision of the Constitution we find inconvenient.
marianne: Me too. Last scuttlebutt I heard said a vote might be as soon as Saturday. I certainly hope it’s turned back.