Filibuster bluster
By Greg Strange
Everyone in the country now knows that Samuel Alito's appointment to the Supreme Court is merely a matter of dotting the i's and crossing the t's, but the gang that couldn't shoot straight, or at least two of them, are bandying about the "F"-word anyway. The "F" should stand for the futility of trying to stop Alito's ascendancy, but John F. Kerry just couldn't help himself and has called for a filibuster. Amusingly, he made the call from Switzerland, that unrivaled bastion of neutrality in the world, where he was attending the World Economic Forum. To no one's particular surprise, Senator Ted Kennedy said he would support a filibuster.
Kerry's reasoning goes like this: "Judge Alito's confirmation would be an ideological coup on the Supreme Court." Coup? Perhaps he used the word metaphorically, but it still reeks of dishonesty and sour grapes. The word "coup" implies that it's being done unlawfully and/or by force. It's a word that is still used to this day by those Bush-haters who have yet to get over the 2000 presidential election. Sad, that level of rancor and self-delusion.
Kerry continued: "We can't afford to see the court's swing vote, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, replaced with a far-right ideologue like Samuel Alito." Then maybe Kerry should call for a Constitutional amendment that would codify an evenly divided court with one swing-voter to boot.
Can't these guys ever just get over it? Even Dick "Guantanamo is a gulag" Durbin sees the futility of it: "One of the first responsibilities of someone in Congress is to learn how to count. Having made a count, I have come to the conclusion it is highly unlikely that a filibuster would succeed." At last! Dick Durbin makes logical sense!
I guess diehards like Kerry and Kennedy just can't help themselves when they see the Supreme Court being reined in from its 40-year-long orgy of forced, unlegislated liberalism. The thought of 12-year-olds having to notify their parents before getting abortions, or Christmas carols being sung in public school pageants, or plaques of the Ten Commandments not being removed from every last courthouse in the land must be almost too much to bear for those liberal lions.
Greg Strange provides conservative commentary with plenty of acerbic wit on the people, politics, events and absurdities of our time. See more at his website: http://www.greg-strange.com/
Everyone in the country now knows that Samuel Alito's appointment to the Supreme Court is merely a matter of dotting the i's and crossing the t's, but the gang that couldn't shoot straight, or at least two of them, are bandying about the "F"-word anyway. The "F" should stand for the futility of trying to stop Alito's ascendancy, but John F. Kerry just couldn't help himself and has called for a filibuster. Amusingly, he made the call from Switzerland, that unrivaled bastion of neutrality in the world, where he was attending the World Economic Forum. To no one's particular surprise, Senator Ted Kennedy said he would support a filibuster.
Kerry's reasoning goes like this: "Judge Alito's confirmation would be an ideological coup on the Supreme Court." Coup? Perhaps he used the word metaphorically, but it still reeks of dishonesty and sour grapes. The word "coup" implies that it's being done unlawfully and/or by force. It's a word that is still used to this day by those Bush-haters who have yet to get over the 2000 presidential election. Sad, that level of rancor and self-delusion.
Kerry continued: "We can't afford to see the court's swing vote, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, replaced with a far-right ideologue like Samuel Alito." Then maybe Kerry should call for a Constitutional amendment that would codify an evenly divided court with one swing-voter to boot.
Can't these guys ever just get over it? Even Dick "Guantanamo is a gulag" Durbin sees the futility of it: "One of the first responsibilities of someone in Congress is to learn how to count. Having made a count, I have come to the conclusion it is highly unlikely that a filibuster would succeed." At last! Dick Durbin makes logical sense!
I guess diehards like Kerry and Kennedy just can't help themselves when they see the Supreme Court being reined in from its 40-year-long orgy of forced, unlegislated liberalism. The thought of 12-year-olds having to notify their parents before getting abortions, or Christmas carols being sung in public school pageants, or plaques of the Ten Commandments not being removed from every last courthouse in the land must be almost too much to bear for those liberal lions.
Greg Strange provides conservative commentary with plenty of acerbic wit on the people, politics, events and absurdities of our time. See more at his website: http://www.greg-strange.com/
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