Okay, everyone. Time out. We know there’s been a large number of changes already going on since the recent election, so many that it’s hard to keep up.
But have the Republicans snuck somebody in “under the radar,” so to speak?
While all the country’s political nabobs seem to be focused on all things Nancy…and whether her choice of the hawkish John Murtha (or was he really her choice after all?) versus the more progressive Steny Hoyer, might we have just overlooked a little something?
Yes, there was the reported controversy over the Republicans’ selection of Trent (Strom Thurmond for President) Lott as the number two person in the Senate; and that was certainly nothing for the Republicans to be bragging about. Yet they were bragging about it, for some reason, or at least it seemed that way.
Why so little fuss about the person the Senate Republicans selected as their primary choice as leader, in response to a country that clearly just a little more than a week ago said that it is fed up with the corrupt pay-to-play system of government that Republicans have turned into a new art form in Washington?
Doesn’t it seem just a tad bit odd that there’s been nary a peep about the fact that the Republicans have selected as their top leaders in the U.S. Senate the combination of a man who believes that “there is not enough money” in politics and a guy who thinks that Strom Thurmond should have been elected president in 1948?
Hmmmmmmm….isn’t it also odd that the so-called news media folks in this country have decided that it’s time to start trashing Democrats as being ununified because they had the audacity to have an actual…election…for the number two House leadership post? Yet, at the same time, the Republicans selected McConnell-Lott as their Senate leaders? (Seriously, the Democratic Party needs to get some people in place to start spoon-feeding these morons who claim to be this nation’s leading “journalists” or else the Republicans will start having their way with them yet again.)
McConnell-Lott. Seriously? Hmmnm.
The best response this American can come up to the Republicans’ antidote to what ails that party, the Senate and the country is: Seriously? McConnell-Lott?
McConnell has literally proclaimed himself so beholden to the monied special interests that he and his fellow Republicans have sold their services to, that he has actually stated, for the record, that he thinks there is NOT ENOUGH MONEY IN POLITICS. (hmm….shouldn’t the Democrats be demanding that the news media re-air this ludicrous notion over and over and over again?) McConnell apparently believes that the solution to the corruption in the Senate and in Washington…is…more money. More influence by the monied interests. Does anyone plan to point this out to, if not the American people, then, perhaps, the Republicans? Seriously?
When the Democrats decide to take steps to reform what John McCain has accurately described as a system of “legalized bribery” in our campaign finance system, what will Mr. McConnell’s response be, on behalf of the Republicans in the Senate, when Democrats remind folks that McConnell thinks “there’s not enough money in politics?” Hopefully, the Democrats in Congress will consider pointing this out.
And when the Democrats in the Congress decide to enact a resolution demanding that the president and his administration begin to aggressively enforce our nation’s Civil Rights laws once again, as they should have been doing for the past six years, do they plan to remind people that the Republicans’ number two leader in the U.S. Senate thinks it would have been a good idea to elect as president of the U.S. in 1948 one of the biggest opponents of Civil Rights in American history? Hopefully, the Democrats in Congress will consider pointing this out.
McConnell-Lott? Seriously? That’s what the Republicans have come up with? Seriously? Did the Republicans consider the fact that these two alone are caricatures of themselves and together caricatures of the Republican Party itself?
My proposal: whenever the Senate Democrats encounter any degree of controversy whatsoever over any proposal whatsover, the Republicans have now provided an easy out: remind the American public and the world…that the Republicans think that Mitch McConnell and Trent Lott are the best solution for what ails this country, the Senate and the Republican Party. And the entire world can reply, in unison: Seriously?
Oh, and does someone plan to point out to Mr. Senator John McCain that the leader of his party in the United States Senate believes that “there is not enough money in politics?” That, also, may be something the Democratic leaders may want to point out, especially since Mr. Senator McCain, who likely voted for McConnell, believes Mr. McConnell’s version of campaign finance is nothing less than “legalized bribery.” Something else that should be pointed out. Again. And again. And again.
