Political Theatre category archive
It Never Stops 2
A letter to the editor in my local rag calls out another liar.
Had My Fill, Buster 0
Dick Polman comments on the Senate’s rule change on the filibuster.
Two nuggets:
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And nowhere in the Constitution – not in a phrase, not in a syllable, not even implicitly – does it empower a Senate minority to block those nominees. In fact, founding fathers James Madison and Alexander Hamilton specifically warned in the Federalist Papers that tyranny of the minority would be a bad thing. They said that requiring a Senate supermajority (anything more than 51 votes) should be limited to the real big stuff, like ratifying a treaty or convicting an impeached president or ousting an elected official for criminal behavior.
As Polman points out elsewhere in the column, the Republicans own obstructionism made this happen.
The Lost Cause 2
Leonard Pitts, Jr., visits Gettysburg:
It was an attempt at moral equivalence, a pretense that both sides are equally valid, and it is not uncommon. When offered a chance to define what America means, some of us rush from judgment.
As long as the polity continues to behave as if the cause of the Secesh was an honorable cause, the Confederate States of America will continue to win the peace, even as they lost the war, and the Secesh will continue to plague the polity.
The Ratings Game 0
The Orlando Sentinal’s Scott Maxwell wanted to know what persons think of their elected representatives incongruously assembled. Not much, it turns out.
So I thought I’d turn to my fellow Central Floridians for perspective.
On a blustery fall afternoon last week, I visited Lake Eola and chatted with folks — young and old, black and white, liberal and conservative.
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Asked to rank Congress on a scale of 1 to 10, the average was 1. One person actually said 3, but he was offset by the two who refused to go higher than zero.
Gaming the Numbers 0
Bob Cesca:
But, because there’s an “Obamacare is a Failed Policy” script that must be serviced, the lowest number of the batch has to be quoted. That’s why you’ve been reading about 106,000 rather than 1.5 million.
Read the rest.