Justice Choice Could Rekindle Filibuster Fight in the Senate - New York Times
hey, let's congratulate ourselves for pulling back from the brink of 'nucular' disaster. hey, good for us and our moderation. let's hear it for compromise. yay for us...
*crickets*
you do know, don't you, those three wacko judges are gonna be confirmed.
yeah. good job.
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I have blogged about this for what seems like months. Now it comes down to a truce and the judges everyone fought over getting a pass through. Would say it is unbelievable, but .. . . Oy.
i got dinged by my roommate for not being thorough enough on tort reform. granted. i'll concede that point. the ins and outs of insurance, premiums, blah blah, don't really interest me. it's the principle. (i swear, i'll make sense soon.) the principle i defend by opposing tort reform is that the powers that be have a responsibility to own up to their responsibility. i'm not talking frivolous lawsuits about perfume or whaterver. i'm talking the big stuff. the stuff about polluters knowingly dumping shit in people's backyards and lying about it. if you do something wrong, knowingly, and harm someone you need to get your ass kicked. this is the principle i defend.
here's my point. (at last, you say.) in this whole filibuster fight, the filibuster itself was a screen, a mere point of congressional/senatorial (whatever) etiquette. the PRINCIPLE at stake was what we wanted our federal court to be. this is the ball we should have kept our eye on.
how can some frigging deal help us keep those judges out? ah, but we compromised. we were civil. we were moderate. we avoided conflict and schism. we're already schismed. (my new word) we're already past that. what matters is principle.
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