It occurs to me a martian with no knowledge of American politics looking in on this blog with no sight of anything else would believe that the most powerful figures in American politics are George W Bush, Lyndon LaRouche, and Doc Hastings.

Never mind.

Ladies and gentlemen, Brain Surgeon Richard “Doc” Hastings, tapping into the Wilsonian impulse, a man who rarely speaks up on the floor of the House was driven to speak up on the floor of the House.:

“When George Washington was elected the first President there was a king in France, a czarina in Russia, an emperor in China, and a shogun in Japan. The American President was the only elected leader at the time. Today, countries on every continent elect their own leaders. The number of democracies currently stands at an all-time high, and has been growing without interruption for some time. Freedom and self-government is on the march around the world. History has shown that those countries who elect their leaders are less belligerent than those that do not.”

I think he gave that speech yesterday while debating the Congresional Resolution that more or less declared that “Be it resolved that we are AmeriCANS”, the equivalent of passing a resolution for “National Pickle Day” except with a couple landmines for political foes to step into in that after declaring that we are “AmeriCANS”, and stuffing the “where-ases” with any number of false frames, states something to the effect of “To veer onto any other course is treasonous to America.”

Or so it would seem.

At any rate, our friends in Congress can dust off the speeches they gave yesterday and provide the same speech as they debate the tried and true Flag Burning Amendment.

It’s a strange mix of late-18th century governments that Doc has listed for us to compare with our current state of affairs. A czarina in Russia as opposed to a former KGB and authoritarian President, systematically chiseling away at Democratic institutions that never quite manifested themselves in that nation. An emporer in China, as opposed to a Communist prime minister, changing the definition of Communism and squashing the myth that Capitalism is automatically a synonym for “Democracy”.

Incidentally, the Democratically elected officials, such as they are, of the sovereign state of Iraq, such as it is, are asking for a Time Table. At the same time, the Democratically elected officials of Iraq, such as they are, they’re working out how to grant amnesty to Insurgents in Iraq who aim for Americans. Figure it out for yourself.

Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, getting over his aggrivation over the disappearance of his “Bridge to Nowhere” from the Omnibus Bill, a Historian for the ages– “I really believe we ought to try to find some way to encourage that country to demonstrate to those people who have been opposed to what we’re trying to do, that it’s worthwhile for them and their children to come forward and support this democracy. And if that’s amnesty, I’m for it. I’d be for it. And if those people who are, come forward… if they bore arms against our people, what’s the difference between those people that bore arms against the Union in the War between the States? What’s the difference between the Germans and Japanese and all the people we’ve forgiven?”

The difference is that the Germans and Japanese and Confederates had just prior given unconditional surrender. Such as it was.

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