Their downward spiral started last month when they decided to intervene in the Terry Schiavo case. The overwhelming majority of Americans correctly thought that politicians were meddling in matters that were none of their damn business.
Unable to take a hint, House majority leader Tom DeLay decided to make threatening remarks against the judges involved in the case. He later called his choice of words "inartful," whatever the hell that means.
Speaking of being inartful, the term would also seem to describe DeLay's continuing denials that he took trips paid for by lobbyists. But according to yesterday's Washington Post, there are credit card receipts proving otherwise.
The one bit of good news for DeLay: President Bush has reaffirmed his faith in the embattled congressman. On the other hand, that's kind of like the Captain of the Titanic congratulating the First mate for getting the lifeboats in the water so quickly.
And over on the Senate side, majority leader and brilliant surgeon Bill Frist is also busy pissing people off. The struggle is over rules governing filibusters, a form of debate which requires 60 votes (out of 100 members) to bring to end. There are several judicial nominees of Bush's that the Democrats continue to block; Frist wants to end the filibuster option for nominees and allow for a straight up or down vote. A new survey, however, shows that 66% of Americans oppose changing Senate rules just to accommodate the psychopaths that currently control the chamber.
Not content to drop the matter, Frist appeared in a videotaped message to a group of conservative Christians. Frist claims the Democrats' filibusters are targeting "judicial nominees of faith." Gee, and I thought they were just targeting members of the Christian Taliban who are seeking to impose their values on everyone else.
The job of judges should be to interpret laws as they are written, not to transform America into some sort of theocracy.
And then there's John Bolton, Bush's nominee for Ambassador to the U.N. Numerous former coworkers of his have come forward with disturbing tales of his verbal abuse and attempts to have them fired or transferred when they disagreed with him. Bolton is an obvious lunatic, but again Bush has reaffirmed his faith in the man and his principles.
Yeah, and O.J. is handy with a knife.
Republicans took control of the House of Representatives in 1994 with promises to reform what many called the "Imperial Congress." Instead they succeeded only in reaching a level of arrogance in ten years that took the Democrats over five decades to achieve.
P.S.
Solar has reprinted a great article about the Unitarian Jihad. I was so inspired by the piece that I signed up, and will henceforth be known as Brother Gatling Gun of Enlightenment. Those of you so inclined can get your own Unitarian Jihad name here.
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