Sauce for the Goose, Sauce for the Gander

I won­der how many more insults from this crowd we’re going to swal­low before we have finally had enough.

Accord­ing to Byron York writ­ing in the Wash­ing­ton Exam­iner the number-​​two Demo­c­rat in the Sen­ate, who pre­vi­ously com­pared Amer­i­cans serv­ing at Guan­tanamo to Nazi death camp guards, has now insulted all Amer­i­cans.  It’s time we called the bluff of this foul, crass, Chicago-​​Way lowlife and I have a good way to do it.

York writes

“This bill has been before the Amer­i­can pub­lic for at least 70 hours on the Inter­net,” Durbin said dur­ing debate on the Sen­ate floor early Tues­day morn­ing. “There’s been ample oppor­tu­nity for peo­ple to read and dis­sect and be crit­i­cal and raise ques­tions. That’s the way it should be.”

Be crit­i­cal and raise ques­tions?  Accord­ing to York

The Sen­ate took its most crit­i­cal vote on the bill — the vote to limit debate and move for­ward toward a final vote — at about 1:15 a.m. Mon­day, when the bill had been pub­lic for less than 40 hours on Sat­ur­day and Sunday

So if I want to be crit­i­cal and raise ques­tions I can just call your office … when?  Sat­ur­day?  Sun­day?  And what would be a good time?  Mid­night?  That’s assum­ing, of course, that I can read 2457 pages of turgid legalese in the time allotted.

Sen­a­tor Mouth said that was ample oppor­tu­nity.  OK.  Let’s find out.  I think Amer­ica, hav­ing been told it was full of clods if they couldn’t all read 2457 pages in 70 hours, deserves to see just how it’s done.  How about a demon­stra­tion of the proper technique?

How about Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gib­bon?  There’s a boxed set avail­able at Ama­zon that’s only 704 pages and an edi­tion of Tolstoy’s War and Peace that is only 1296 pages for a total page count of 2000 pages.  457 pages less than the bill and the manager’s amend­ment.  Piece of cake.

So Amer­ica will spring for a nice motel room with a com­fort­able bed and a nice desk for read­ing and tak­ing notes.  Notes are rec­om­mended.  There will be a test.  Since there will be dras­tic con­se­quences for Amer­ica should the bill pass there will be dras­tic con­se­quences for you if you do not get an A.  As you were con­temp­tu­ous of any­one who couldn’t read the bill, and then call up a sen­ate office on the week­end and make his views known, requir­ing an A seems fair.  Fail to get an A?

• you are no longer a senator
• your bank account is empty
• your pen­sion is kaput

In other words, in the same shape as a lot of Amer­i­cans who depended on you to do some­thing other than fool around with this health care obses­sion for a year and then talk down to them as though dis­obe­di­ent school children.

We’ll be back in a minute with some No.2 pen­cils, a note pad, and the books.  The exam starts in 70 hours.  Sharp.

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