Quotations of note
“What the Democrats are doing is “the equivalent of Adolf Hitler in 1942 saying, ‘I’m in Paris. How dare you invade me. How dare you bomb my city? It’s mine.’ This is no more the rule of the senate than it was the rule of the senate before not to filibuster.” — Rick Santorum
The comments around the blogosphere tend toward the outrage shown by some, including Senator Rick Santorum, about the moveon contest, which included a couple entries about Adolf Hitler.
As for the matter in question about the looming “Nuclear Option” — read through this. Comparable to the second lowest part of the Franklin Roosevelt Administration (the lowest being the Internment of Japanese citizens) — his Court Packing Scheme. I must point out that at least in Roosevelt’s case, his hubris was borne out from just having come out of an electoral victory where he lost all of two states (Maine and Vermont) — quite a popular figure (and quite an unpopular Supreme Court, I may add). At the moment, Congressional Opinion Polls show Congress at the lowest level of popular esteem in over a decade. The president’s approval rating comes in in the low 40s — and the election he’s coming out of was won by a hair.
On the other hand, perhaps hubris isn’t the issue here. Everyone who thinks for even a second knows that pendulums swing around in politics, and the goal here is simply to get as much as you can when you are in power: judges are appointed for life, and they absolutely poitively need to put in place, by hook and by crook, for when your political ideology loses favour.
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Radio host Glen Beck: Hang on, let me just tell you what I’m thinking. I’m thinking about killing Michael Moore, and I’m wondering if I could kill him myself, or if I would need to hire somebody to do it. No, I think I could. I think he could be looking me in the eye, you know, and I could just be choking the life out — is this wrong? I stopped wearing my What Would Jesus — band — Do, and I’ve lost all sense of right and wrong now. I used to be able to say, “Yeah, I’d kill Michael Moore,” and then I’d see the little band: What Would Jesus Do? And then I’d realize, “Oh, you wouldn’t kill Michael Moore. Or at least you wouldn’t choke him to death.” And you know, well, I’m not sure.
And thus to paraphrase Fox News after a low-level scandal involving Randi Rhodes: Clear Channel Apology: Is it enough, or is it time to get tough?
(Incidentally, I just googled Glen Beck, and came up with this funny letter to the editor to an Idaho newspaper:
I read with interest your letter that was published in Wednesday’s paper decrying liberal media bias. The only part that anyone who reads, listens to radio or watches television could agree with is, “We, the people, deserve non-biased reporting in all our news.” We certainly do not have non-biased reporting.
I am trying to decide, while living in southeast Idaho, where the liberal media push is coming from. […]
The Liberal Idaho Media. What are you gonna do?
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