What's the point of diarying this? Reid's convinced the Supreme Court will fix it. Dems are whining, and Kossaks are diarying everything from "obits" on through to casket metaphors, how poetic.
The facts are simple enough, it passed. No need to dress it up in with metaphors, parables, or any other cutesy writer's gizmos.
If Reid and the other dems actually BELIEVED the first sentence of his statement,
The Framers of our Constitution understood the need for checks and balances, but this bill discards them.
then we would have at minimum seen fist fights break out on the Sentate floor.
But it's all just an intellectual exercise on some level for these folks.
'Fear not, the Supreme Court will come along and clean this shit up later.'
Cute.
A filibuster was sort of the bare minimum I require of representatives as everything this country once might have stood for went down the drain, but no.
'fear not, someone else will come along and clean it up, but that's ok cause we'll take our little rap on the knuckles, history will judge us.'
Cute, stupid, trite, and pathetic, but hey, what else have we come to expect?
The dog ate Reid's homework, the dog at the Dems' homework, hell, the dog even ate the Repubs' homework.
But that's what happens when they get to play hooky from the real fight, yet pick up tomorrow and go on, no consequences, don't worry, 'it'll get cleaned up later'.
We don't take pathetic little lame excuses from children on the small things, why should we accept them from people proporting to be grown ups on the things that really matter most?
Dems had a job to do- and they walked off the job.