Okay, so who cares about the law -- whatever it takes to win, right?
After a Presidential election that appears to have had demos out paying street people to show up at the polls, then having them sue when they couldn't vote and then trying to bilk military personnel overseas out of their chance to vote, the demos are taking their shenanigans even further.
Paragon of truth and justice Senator Torticelli from New Jersey, a fire brand and actually pretty good, if not overly liberal for our tastes, has found himself embroiled in his own shenanigans and oops, he's bowing out. Why Now? Why not wait til the election comes and he gets voted out like any other candidate in trouble? Not just politics as usual, but Democrat Politics with capital letters (excuse the indirect pun).
You see, if he bows out, there is the off chance that someone can convince a judge somewhere that the September 16 deadline for applying for the job is not really a deadline, its just some sort of flimsy guideline. In other words, the Demos are hoping for another rewrite of history, in this instance, the law. Rewriting laws, history, doesn't matter. Whatever it takes to keep the Democratic majority (albeit they didn't start out that way, they had to figure out some way to shift some across from the Republican party).
You see, it really doesn't matter how the law works or what the founders intended. The "I want" generation has been in power for decades and right now "I want" says "I want to keep the majority, we like having so much power". The converse, "I don't want" is their other god given right. "I don't want a Republican President to do his job" so we're draggin'' feet on homeland security and a resolution to help the President pin the tail on the donkey called the U.N. who is another socialist scheme that has the teeth of a gumless old woman and the guts to match.
So here we are, the most powerful nation in the world, sitting on our hands while the world burns. And the Demos are pulling out the stops to keep their majority so Tom Daschel has a forum for his B.S. and the Senate can continue to obstruct justice, obstruct formation of the homeland security department and keep the President from applying needed pressure on the U.N.
If they Democrats can't lead, then nobody can.
And Torticelli, the poor schmuck, is convinced by his "compassionate" brothers in the party to drop out now. All on the off chance that yet another shannigan can force the break they don't deserve. What's next, a dual Clinton ticket for 2004? What a great idea! One with no moral fiber and one abused spouse. That is the ideal ticket for the Demos. The Victims ticket for 2004. See, the Torch (Torticelli was known as the Torch for his exceedingly sharp tongue and "go get 'em style -- a sort of King of the Torts technique, that's why we abuse his name) is in good company. He should stick it out, he might overcome the ethics stigma. After all, Al Gore can lie all he wants and nobody seems to care.
It is sad really. We grew to respect the guy through his public
displays of his passion and tough, if not partisan questioning of witnesses
before Senate committees. We'll miss the emotion and the excitement
he brought to otherwise pretty dull proceedings. Thanks for the memories,
Tort-man.
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