Good evening, Senators Alexander, Cruz, Graham, McCain, McConnell, Paul, et al. I know you think I have not been ‘listening’ to you, in these days of Obama, but I have. You have painted yourselves as victims in the political process, but I never appreciated before now the magnitude of your exceptional victimhood.
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Now that the Senate has reformed the filibuster applying to (non-Supreme) court nominees, I appreciate more than ever the degree to which you have been victimized. Democrats can approve the administration’s judicial nominees with a simple majority vote. Before, the power was yours. President Obama could name whoever he pleased, it just wouldn’t matter because you could block every nomination with a clear minority vote. Majority-like power with minority status. Now that you can’t do that, within those narrow limits, you are victims of President Obama and the Democratic majority once again. You just aren’t getting your way as much as people with your power and wealth and influence and status and ego should.
Of course, since the inauguration in President Obama’s first term, you have been given the opportunity to help govern this country, to participate in the governing process, to share that responsibility with Democrats elected for the same purpose. You have not wanted President Obama to succeed in any measure, on any front, and yet he has, in some cases. So you have abdicated your role in governing, in doing the work of the people of the United States.
From the beginning Harry Reid and Senate Democrats have asked you to help move things along, to help do the things the American people need you to do, and you have refused to do those things. Senator Reid has asked you over and over to allow up or down votes on judicial nominees, he has made deals with you to advance the Senate’s business until it became clear that only the so-called ‘nuclear option’ would make that possible. You believed most resolutely that he would never take that step, that he was bluffing to try to manipulate you into governing, but you called his bluff over and over, certain that he, like all Democrats as you see them, lacked the strength of character to follow through on his bluff.
So, even if this ‘crisis’ was of your own making, you have sold me on it. You sure are victims! I'm sorry for you! As, I feel sure, are Democrats everywhere. You are not getting your way on this matter, as you are accustomed, victims to a greater degree than any Senators before you ever have been, I agree. You are the biggest victims in the history of the United States Senate.
And, if that wasn't enough, Obamacare and a deal with Iran. Your victimhood truly is unprecedented.
Victimhood is a terrible thing, isn’t it?!
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