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November 02, 2005
Dems try to stay on message, even in the absence of one.
Yesterday Bill Frist complained that Democrats had hijacked the Senate, but it's probably as accurate for Democrats to complain Harry Reid and the wingnuts who love him so had hijacked the Democratic Party. This isn't anything new, but yesterday may well have marked the demise of Daniel Patrick Moynihan liberalism. Reid and his compadres, for whom Plame-gate had become a proxy fight over pre-war WMD intelligence, must've been bitterly disappointed last week when Karl Rove, whom they've never learned to defeat in an election, wasn't indicted. They'd also hoped Dick Cheney-burton, their other anti-Christ, would find himself wearing a grocery bag hat, but that won't happen either. Last week was indeed a bad one for them, and October a terrible month.
It's absurd to believe the White House would't use the Alito announcement to draw attention from Libby's indictment and its residual chatter. But Reid, too, hated losing momentum in the headlines. The Senate's Rule 22 permits two Senators to close the American public out of deliberations, and history suggests it is to be reserved for monumental, even grave issues facing the Republic. That Reid had the capital to invoke Rule 22 to advance a brainless vendetta suggests the demise of the Democratic Party is all but complete.
Posted by bill at November 2, 2005 10:49 AM
