Thursday, May 26, 2005

What's yer favorite whine?

Go read Joe Conason's take on the whiney-ass Republican bitches in the wake of the Senate compromise on the filibuster. Via Working For Change.
The "nuclear option" represented an assault on the structures that make self-government possible in a large, diverse and sharply divided nation. This was an ideological minority's attempt to exploit the Senate -- where small rural states enjoy disproportional weight -- and seize absolute power. In the name of the Constitution, they tried to rip down the barriers to factional domination that were erected by the nation's founders.

Their defeat is democracy's victory.

Let's hope. I hope it ain't like shooting down a few planes at Pearl Harbor: a minor victory in a great disaster.

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