January 31, 2006

Invertebrate Humor

C'mon, you have to laugh, or otherwise you'd cry. The spineless:

Akaka, Daniel K. (Coward-HI)
Baucus, Max (Doormat-MT)
Bingaman, Jeff (Toady-NM)
Byrd, Robert C. (Ditherer-WV)
Cantwell, Maria (One-termer-WA)
Carper, Thomas R. (Lickspittle-DE)
Conrad, Kent (Stooge-ND)
Dorgan, Byron L. (Loser-ND)
Inouye, Daniel K. (Pawn-HI)
Johnson, Tim (Milksop-SD)
Kohl, Herb (Flunky-WI)
Landrieu, Mary L. (Parasite-LA)
Lieberman, Joseph I. (Sycophant-CT)
Lincoln, Blanche L. (Puppet-AR)
Nelson, Bill (Candy-ass-FL)
Nelson, E. Benjamin (Lowlife-NE)
Pryor, Mark L. (Chicken-AR)
Rockefeller, John D., IV (Weasel-WV)
Salazar, Ken (Dissembler-CO)

Posted by binky at January 31, 2006 09:54 AM | TrackBack | Posted to Politics


Comments

Rockefeller? Byrd? You guys have some work to do. Why would anyone in Washington or Connecticut feel the need to vote to end debate . . . oh wait, I forgot, Lieberman that punk-ass little whore. He's not a Sycophant, just a Republican, to the extent there's a difference among Senate Republicans.

Posted by: Moon at January 31, 2006 10:09 AM | PERMALINK

Well Cantwell might have a tough race on her hands by this summer, so I guess I can see why she might choose to do this. And post-Katrina Louisiana is going to be as Red as Nebraska, so I can understand Landrieu. And of course some of these folks (your Nelsons, Pryors, Lincolns, Liebermans and Carpers) are "moderates" on a lot of issues. But a lot of these make no sense at all - especially if a party is supposed to represent its base. The Hawaiians? Bingaman? Huh?

And I still think no senator comes out of this looking worse than Robert C. Byrd (well, maybe Tom Coburn - but that's for a whole different set of reasons) - how he can huff and puff about an imperial presidency and then do this - he's a weak-willed embarrassment.

Posted by: Armand at January 31, 2006 10:28 AM | PERMALINK

The Byrd vote is the one that makes me the maddest. I can see how he will rationalize is at being faithful to the Senate, decorum and all that, but I still don't like it. Bingaman is the one that surprised me.

Posted by: binky at January 31, 2006 11:21 AM | PERMALINK

I still can't quite get over this - there were 42 votes against Alito, yet he's now a justice of the SCOTUS. The only possible reason I can see to keep the filibuster in place is that it can still potentially be used against the occasional wild-eyed lower court nominee. Is keeping a scary judge or two off a circuit court really a big enough reason NOT to back the filibuster? Maybe - but I'm skeptical. And I can't believe that the political commentary on places like the Hotline says that it's great for people like Cantwell and Chafee that they could vote to both block and not block he Alito nomination. What? Cuz yeah, you know voting both for and against something worked so well for John Kerry in 2004. I give the Whte House credit for finding just the right sort of right-winger not to raise a fuss. I praised a potential Alito nomination on that score long before Alito was nominated. But as to the policy implications of all this - I feel ill.

Posted by: Armand at January 31, 2006 05:58 PM | PERMALINK

And I wish I had some way to communicate to Senator Byrd how very completely he just lost my support, and probably gained my active campaigning against him. However, I am sure he doesn't care, as he doesn't need my vote anyway. Likely they think of our fair city the same way Jesse Helms though about Chapel Hill.

Posted by: binky at January 31, 2006 08:19 PM | PERMALINK

Write him an honest-to-goodness letter, a real letter - and include comparisons to the Founders in ways that illustrate he's not really standing up for his purported principles. He won't see it, but hey, it's important for at least the staff to know that some of his constituents are pissed and aren't buying his BS.

Posted by: Armand at January 31, 2006 10:22 PM | PERMALINK
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