The Issue of an Up or Down Vote
This is just a quickie. Well, it is a quickie as far as I, the blogger that doesn’t know when to quit writing is concerned.
Last year, (or was it even longer than that?) we had the Republicans trying to push George W Bush’s right wing extremist federal judge nominations on the American people. The Senate was deadlocked because the Democrats were determined to filibuster these extremists. The results of having these radicals on the bench could be detrimental to hundreds of court cases that would be brought before these people. It was clear that these people were far right from the mainstream, however the Republicans pushed their agenda by announcing to the media that they just wanted “an up or down vote.” Of course this was only an effort to try to embarrass the Democrats into falling in line with the Republicans. The Democrats knew that the tide had turned and most Americans no longer blindly threw their allegiance behind the extremist leaders.
Now with the tables turned the issue is no longer the fate of extremist judges. Instead we have the lives of thousands of soldiers being wasted on a lost cause. We have billions of dollars being spent on a futile effort of trying to build a nation for people who would rather have us leave them alone. The Democrats are not even asking for a law to change anything. Instead the Democrats are trying to find out who’s on board and who is still standing with the lost cause. The Democrats want to debate the effort in the light of public scrutiny so the law makers will finally understand what the moral and ethical way forward truly is. And, the Republicans don’t even want the issue to come up for a vote.
This isn’t even a law. It doesn’t change anything except the way America may actually look at the war. And the Republicans are afraid of “an up or down vote” on this issue. The Republican Party has truly become the Party of the wimps.
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Don't forget what Stephen Colbert said, "Reality has a well-known liberal bias."
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