Saturday, November 29, 2003
Gutless, feckless Beltway Dems beaten, left for dead
Yeah, so they held back a few of the more rabid winger judges. Good for a C+ in a business-as-usual year.
They lose Medicare -- blindsided by the AARP! How the heck did that happen, Mr. Daschle? Wasn't it supposed to be different with you, Ms. Pelosi?
Meanwhile, the Republicans throw away 60 hours on a made-for-TV filibuster, complete with cots, while failing to pass the budget to fund 13 agencies, and the Dems don't say Boo, let alone the SCLM.
Telling incident: House rules demand a vote be completed in fifteen minutes, but the House Thugs kept the vote going for three hours, twisting arms. (Like when the leadership "stops the clock" in the Texas Lege, the level the House has now descended to.) Anyhow, this is the final straw for Barney Frank, who says this, not letting Democrats partiticipate at all (not to mention trying to arrrest them!), and the other continuing rules violations by the Thugs mean "the end of parliamentary democracy."
Right.
And does Frank do anything? Does the leadership? Nope. Meek as lambs. Why not pull out of the whole farce, set up some tables outside the Capitol, call the cameras, and start doing a little truth-telling?
They lose Medicare -- blindsided by the AARP! How the heck did that happen, Mr. Daschle? Wasn't it supposed to be different with you, Ms. Pelosi?
Meanwhile, the Republicans throw away 60 hours on a made-for-TV filibuster, complete with cots, while failing to pass the budget to fund 13 agencies, and the Dems don't say Boo, let alone the SCLM.
Telling incident: House rules demand a vote be completed in fifteen minutes, but the House Thugs kept the vote going for three hours, twisting arms. (Like when the leadership "stops the clock" in the Texas Lege, the level the House has now descended to.) Anyhow, this is the final straw for Barney Frank, who says this, not letting Democrats partiticipate at all (not to mention trying to arrrest them!), and the other continuing rules violations by the Thugs mean "the end of parliamentary democracy."
Right.
And does Frank do anything? Does the leadership? Nope. Meek as lambs. Why not pull out of the whole farce, set up some tables outside the Capitol, call the cameras, and start doing a little truth-telling?
