Monday, March 07, 2005
A Filibuster Rant
From a poster at Polipundit:
Once again, it seems like most of us are more concerned about the political advantage than the morality of our moves. We must avoid this McClellanism; always waiting for better odds at the expense of action.
We have won the election. It is time to make good policy. The American people have said that we are right and Robert Byrd, Ted Kennedy, and John Kerry are wrong. They are not wrong for the tactics they use but for the immorality they advocate. We should defeat them.
Their tactics are wrong, because they are the tactics of bad people. The tactics of a man who said African Americans are inferior, a man who let his girlfriend drown in a drunk driving accident, and a man who lied about his military record so he could claim before Congress that his colleagues in the military were murdering civilians.
We do not celebrate the tactics of Saladin, because we do not celebrate the victory of Islam over the crusaders. We do not celebrate the genius of the blitzkrieg, because we despise fascism.
Though the crime of social democracy is tiny in comparison (unless you are a fetus, a working person who income is confiscated to support policies that you despise, or an Arab woman long enslaved by western inaction), the tactics of social democracy–of Kennedyism in short–is what allows the evil it allows to continue.
The filibuster is wrong because we want to live in a democratic republic in a moral society. There is no reason to think that the policy interests of the American people are better served by a tyranny of 41 Democrats than a majority of 51 Republicans. We can only hope that we always have 51 good people in the Senate. If we do not, it is our sin. If those 51 are weak in the face of pressure, it is theirs.
If 55 Republican Senators, 232 Republican Representatives, and a Republican administration cannot change the leftist policies of the last 50 years, it will never happen. If we fail now, in the next two years, there will be no next time. Abortion will always be legal. Homosexuals will marry in every state (or only in a few but have their false marriages recognized everywhere). If we cannot defend our country from 80 year old men holding gavels and wearing black dresses, then we will be too timid to defend our God and country from Islamist fanatics or North Korean missiles. We will be Gomorrahans waiting for the Santa Ana winds to kick up.
It is time for Democrats to pay the piper, and we should pass our agenda by whatever means prove most effective. The Democrats have threatened to obstruct the entire agenda, if we follow the Constitution and approve our judges. There should be a price for that. If Senator Byrd decides to filibuster the highway bill, then we should eliminate highway bill filibusters (if only to prove we can). What would be our justification? Power and resolve. If we have that, then the liberals can never stop us.
Comment by Carl Snook
Indeed!
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Once again, it seems like most of us are more concerned about the political advantage than the morality of our moves. We must avoid this McClellanism; always waiting for better odds at the expense of action.
We have won the election. It is time to make good policy. The American people have said that we are right and Robert Byrd, Ted Kennedy, and John Kerry are wrong. They are not wrong for the tactics they use but for the immorality they advocate. We should defeat them.
Their tactics are wrong, because they are the tactics of bad people. The tactics of a man who said African Americans are inferior, a man who let his girlfriend drown in a drunk driving accident, and a man who lied about his military record so he could claim before Congress that his colleagues in the military were murdering civilians.
We do not celebrate the tactics of Saladin, because we do not celebrate the victory of Islam over the crusaders. We do not celebrate the genius of the blitzkrieg, because we despise fascism.
Though the crime of social democracy is tiny in comparison (unless you are a fetus, a working person who income is confiscated to support policies that you despise, or an Arab woman long enslaved by western inaction), the tactics of social democracy–of Kennedyism in short–is what allows the evil it allows to continue.
The filibuster is wrong because we want to live in a democratic republic in a moral society. There is no reason to think that the policy interests of the American people are better served by a tyranny of 41 Democrats than a majority of 51 Republicans. We can only hope that we always have 51 good people in the Senate. If we do not, it is our sin. If those 51 are weak in the face of pressure, it is theirs.
If 55 Republican Senators, 232 Republican Representatives, and a Republican administration cannot change the leftist policies of the last 50 years, it will never happen. If we fail now, in the next two years, there will be no next time. Abortion will always be legal. Homosexuals will marry in every state (or only in a few but have their false marriages recognized everywhere). If we cannot defend our country from 80 year old men holding gavels and wearing black dresses, then we will be too timid to defend our God and country from Islamist fanatics or North Korean missiles. We will be Gomorrahans waiting for the Santa Ana winds to kick up.
It is time for Democrats to pay the piper, and we should pass our agenda by whatever means prove most effective. The Democrats have threatened to obstruct the entire agenda, if we follow the Constitution and approve our judges. There should be a price for that. If Senator Byrd decides to filibuster the highway bill, then we should eliminate highway bill filibusters (if only to prove we can). What would be our justification? Power and resolve. If we have that, then the liberals can never stop us.
Comment by Carl Snook
Indeed!
# posted by Joe Florida @ 11:25 AM 
