Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Munich 2.0 ?  - "The nuclear option is off the table." - Dick Durbin
- "Attempts to trample the Constitution and grab absolute control are over." - Harry Reid
- This pact is "a significant victory for our country." - Harry Reid
- "We have kept the Republic!" - Robert Byrd
posted by Quiddity at 5/24/2005 11:06:00 AM
5 comments
You forget that Durbin, Reid, and Byrd are all liberals.
Chamberlain was a conservative.
No offense to your analogy, but it loses its punch when you realize that the other side is using it too.
I'm not saying your version isn't closer to the truth of the situation. I just think that the Nazi parallel has been drawn so often, for so many situations, it loses its punch and undercuts the arguer's position.
The Senate confirmed Priscilla Owens as a Federal Appellate Judge. The Democrats are really getting run over and do not seem to have what it takes to stand up to anything. That it is being called a compromise says a lot about where the Democrats are today... the filibuster "compromise" is more like a big republican victory. -Sean
"we" had already compromised by
comfirming 200+ of the nominees.
all this is is a face saving measure, for dems to pretend they havent completely given up and lost and for the repubs to pretend they havent completely taken over with tyranny.
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"we" dont have power because we lost elections, across the board, over the last four years.
Pretending we havent lost power doesnt change the fact that we have much less representative power.
Pretending this "compromise" is not a loss doesnt change the fact
that we lost everthing but an illusion of dignity.
Senators will get paid to sit in their wood paneled offices for six years and pretend. They will choose that over fighting enmass
and going on the road to inform The People. On TV they talk endlessly about parlimentary rules
and little or nothing about nominee opposition to minimum wage and overtime, let alone BushCo having no clothes on umpteen issues
and in 2006 and 2008 six months before the eletions they will stand up and proclaim that they deserve our vote because they are not republicans. problem is they are not anything at all.
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