We pass our time and our lives in contemplating what we have already contemplated, and by this we are most insidiously imprisoned. This redundancy constructs our habitat, we construct by analogy and by resemblance, it is our architecture. Those who perceive, or build differently, or elsewhere, are our hereditary enemies.
Ladies and Gentlemen: your GOP. Dangerous people, of course, can be told by their names. Which are Abdul or Ahmed or Mohammed. They will have their own line. For scrutiny. Everyone else: come on aboard!
Worth noting that disgraced former Speaker Newt has been the most frequent guest featured on Meet the Press this year. Number of times Nancy Pelosi, sitting Speaker of the House, third in line for the Presidency, and senior member of majority caucus in Congress has been on? Zero. Your Liberal Media at work again.
If we didn’t have a feckless Democratic majority, they might be in front of microphones just about now giving a preferably rhyming, two sentence version of this information for the evening news and cablers:
An attempt to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day would be all-consuming for the administrator of the Transportation Security Administration – if there were one.
Instead, the post remains vacant because Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., has held up President Barack Obama’s nominee in an effort to prevent TSA workers from joining a labor union.
and, while they’re at it, they could see fit to mention that (emphasis added):
Republicans have cast votes against the key TSA funding measure that the 2010 appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security contained, which included funding for the TSA, including for explosives detection systems and other aviation security measures. In the June 24 vote in the House, leading Republicans including John Boehner, Pete Hoekstra, Mike Pence and Paul Ryan voted against the bill, […] A full 108 Republicans voted against the conference version, including Boehner, Hoekstra, Pence, Michelle Bachmann, Marsha Blackburn, Darrell Issa and Joe Wilson.
I guess pointing out this sort of brazen hypocrisy from our National Security Party, the GOP, just wouldn’t be polite, and would undermine the extreme and ongoing displays of real comity we’ve seen thus far.
Fixing the problem doesn’t mean voting out the feckless Democrats or the obstructionist Republicans. It doesn’t even mean voting out Senator Lieberman. As long as our legislative process is held in thrall to an economy of influence that nearly requires members to play nice with the special interests, the will of the people — on the left and on the right — will continue to be stymied on every issue, in every Congress, under every administration.
Lemkin 