9 November 2005 - 4:45pm
Political complaining goes online: The Frist Whineblog
egalia has some choice words for Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (M.D., folks) and his "blogwhining":
Frist is still whining about the day that the Dems took charge of the Senate by invoking Rule 21. And he's blogging the whine, or blogwhining.
Some choice whine vintage:
Last week's absurd, unwarranted and disingenuous call for a closed session of the United States Senate sent me a clear message: Many Democrats have decided to mock the Senate's rules in the name of partisan advantage. For more than three years, the Democrats have abused Senate rules to impede the judicial nomination process. To do this, they used a technique called the filibuster--a refusal to end debate and vote.
I hope that the Senate will conduct Alito's confirmation process with customary courtesy and civility. The process should move toward a January vote in an orderly manner. But if the Democratic minority chooses to obstruct the confirmation process, abuse Senate rules and violate the Constitution, I will not hesitate to put the constitutional option before my colleagues.
The Tennessee Guerilla Woman notes:
But Frist isn't calling it the 'nuclear option.' Republicans are so into newspeak. Their newspeak term for the nuclear option is the 'constitutional option.'
Stay tuned, any day now Republicans will be calling torture the 'constitutional imperative.'
We do not torture! We enforce the constitutional imperative!
Yes. But at least we know he seriously whines about leaks about torture.
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He sure is getting worked up lately. I think the fear of disgrace, or the investigation is getting to him.
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