Yeah, OK, Mario Lopez, I know it’s subtle:
If the Democrats were forced to filibuster the old-fashioned way by being required to speak continuously perhaps they would take their place alongside brethren like ex-Sen. Strom Thurmond. As an opponent of desegregation and a Democrat Thurmond spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes in opposition to the 1957 Civil Rights Act.
Could Thurmond’s record be broken? Given the contempt fueling opposition to a fair vote for Miguel Estrada, it is possible. At any rate, past Democrats would certainly have been proud of the party’s obstructionist success so far.
The implication, of course, is that Senate Republicans should get off — or perhaps SIT THERE ON — their duffs and not leave the Senate chamber until the Dumbs can’t talk anymore, and make them TRY to beat Thurmond’s record. But our namby-pamby worthless Senators are too good to do round-the-clock filibuster vigils in our enlightened day and age, and too nice to say, “Fuck you, if you leave, you lose.”
Why don’t we conservatives say what we REALLY think?
Jeez.