Quoth BushCo: "No Ugly Politics!"

uhm. yeah.

say, what are these other two assholes being filibustered for, anyway?

"DEVELOPING STORY Explosions rock Baghdad as coalition troops continue their ground and air assault, military officials say. Details soon. "

on the top of that page???

hey, bill pryor ain't all bad

Butts also issued a warning to the panel: "Remember as you judge Roy Moore today that tomorrow you may be judged."

xpost: I always look to Busta for my political analysis. Like when he performed at my school a few years ago and gave shout-outs to "Professor Goooldberg".

An envoy from a neighboring country paid a visit to the king at the time when Effendi served as the king's counselor. Harboring ill intent, the envoy took an iron hammer out of his satchel and said to the king proudly, "This hammer resembles my empire!" He then took out a glass bottle and said disdainfully, "This glass bottle represents your country!"

So saying, he put the bottle before the king, held the hammer high and then struck the bottle, smashing it to pieces. He did all this as if no one else was present.

"See how easily your country could be destroyed by a single attack from mine!" threatened the envoy.

The king almost fell from his throne at the words.

"Ha-ha-ha..." the envoy burst into laughter, dizzy with the impact of his action.

At the moment, Effendi went over, picked up a piece of broken glass and slightly poked it at the envoy's hand. The envoy hurriedly let go of the hammer, and nursing his wounded hand in the other, asked in a surprised way, "What do ... you ... want?"

"Nothing," Effendi said in a righteous tone. "I just want to demonstrate that what the pounding of the iron hammer on a glass bottle produces is not just broken glass but countless sharp knives!"

The envoy broke into a cold sweat at the words and fled with his tail between his legs.

--Translated by Chen Haiyan

way to raise the bar Blount.

I'm amazed anyone is happy to watch the fucking juvenile discourse going on in the Senate right now. It deepens my cynicism even more than I thought possible.

These dumbfucks, who consider themselves fucking privileged royalty, are kicking the judicial system around with no regard for anything but their own re-elections. It's a fucking travesty.

My three year old has better comebacks than, "He took my toy last week. I have every right to take his toy THIS week! Nyah, nyah, nyah."

We can debate around and around about how the filibuster and committee votes are supposed to protect the integrity of the system, and prevent the majority from turning the government into something monolithically fraudulent.

But this whole game clouds the greater issue, which is that on nearly every vote taken in Congress, the same old playground bullies are having their way with the system. These petulant games go on at every level, in every committee, and at every fucking appointed agency. The whole fucking ball of wax is all about political power and the fellating it takes to get anything done. Why anyone would want to continue to turn large portions of the workforce over to our federal largesse so that even more of the country can become the playground for political gamesmanship is so beyond me.

And I really don't know how anyone can defend not allowing a full Senate vote, no matter who is in charge. Fucking embarassing.

Look, it's not "embarrassing" to open yourself up to charges of obstructionism, etc because you're taking a principled stand! I have to respect Repubs who did the same thing when they blocked appointments of pro-choice judges. They were being highly principled. Unfortunately those particular principles are a load of old crap, so their position is a bit weaker in my mind. But if you look at what decisions in the judges' past the Democrats were objecting to, how can you disagree with trying to make sure the fuckers never saw greater power? (BIG recurring problem for Dems: this story became all about the wrangling and not about the actual issues at stake = Republicans "win" in the press)

And like I posted previously, this happens all the time in other areas and no filibusters ever happen. That's exactly how discretionary spending gets so large--it comes out of committee that way.