Here's a bit that's too good to pass up. Russ Smith, writing in the New York Press, gives us a sampler of addled thinking at both ends of the political spectrum. He focuses mainly on luminaries like Frank Rich of the New York Times, and Pat Buchanan. But here is the richest passage:
A U.S. senator, in a meeting at the White House, spoke about the issue of gays in the military. He said: "It will lead to same-sex marriages and homosexuals in the Boy Scouts."
Sam Brownback? Rick Santorum? George Allen? You struck out. Actually, those comments were given by West Virginia's Robert Byrd—now the revered "conscience of the Senate," a man whom Democrats rely on to preserve the sanctity of that chamber—on Jan. 28, 1993 in a discussion with newly-elected Bill Clinton. This historical nugget is found in Washington Post reporter John Harris' new book about the former president, The Survivor. Harris writes about the reincarnation of Cicero and Socrates: "[Byrd] rose from his seat to give a florid lecture about how the Roman Empire fell when it began to allow moral decay."
I suppose this means that, were President Bush to appoint Senator Byrd to something, say Undersecretary of the Interior in charge of Pork, the Democrats would announce that this constituted an extraordinary circumstance and then filibuster. Maybe they would even call it a filibuster.
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