Monday, October 03, 2005

The Soul of Reason

Here's a great quote:

Fact is, we need a new Supreme Court justice, and Bush, as president gets to nominate. The Senate, run by Republicans, gets to confirm. That's a perk of winning elections, and [Dems could ] filibuster, but really, it was in Bush's interest, just like Clinton's, to find a safe candidate. Reid offered up Miers, Bush agreed.

Oh, so genteel! And who is this Socrates? This Thalia inspired sage?

You've probably already guessed.

2 comments:

Brian Dunbar said...

The concept of 'the loyal opposition' is not dead after all. Practical politics rules!

Huzzah.

Or did I miss the point?

MAH said...

No, I think that's it. Like I say in my header, I think democracy only works when we *all* get to do things we don't like.

The "loyal opposition" only works well when they get to win occasionally. Otherwise they harden into Norquist/Kos-like partisens.

Hopefully the pendulum is swinging back towards the center and leveler heads will prevail.

Hopefully.