The Discerning Texan

All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke

Tuesday, November 06, 2007

When Surber is on, it's a Beautiful thing to see...

I was trying to think about how to write about the Congressional Democrats' latest screw-up, i.e. the finesse with which they handled propeller-head Dennis Kucinich's lame attempt to impeach the Vice President, but when I saw this brilliant piece from Don Surber on the same subject, it stopped me in my tracks. How do you improve on something that has already has been stated perfectly? It would be like University of Texas going up against the New England Patriots--it just wouldn't even be fair:

GOP Wins on impeachment
Republicans=Harlem Globetrotters. Democrats=Washington Generals

Call this Steny stymied. Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich called for an up-or-down vote on impeaching Vice President Cheney. On Saturday, I pointed out the irony.

The No. 2 Democrat in the House tried to ditch the proposal like Ugly Betty at the Junior Prom. House Republicans decided to have a little fun with it. They voted to allow Kucinich to proceed with his little resolution.

Sure, expose to the nation just what kind of loony bins voters sent to the House of Representatives. Congress has the lowest job approval rating of anyone ebver in Washington. 11%. Cheney’s numbers are better!

Sure, show the public just what these lifer politicians are doing in Washington.

Sure, do it.

Blogged Paul Kane of the Washington Post: “More than 120 members, predominantly Republicans, then switched their votes in favor of holding a one-hour debate on the issue, with a final vote of 251-162 supporting a debate on impeachment. Rather than allow a debate fraught with political risk, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) moved to send the Kucinich resolution to the Judiciary Committee, whose chairman, Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), has publicly speculated about impeaching the president or vice president but has declined taking any action since taking the gavel in January.”

Way to go Democratic House leadership. I would call them all clowns, but clowns serve a purpose: Distracting bulls at the rodeo.

Democrats seem to be split now between the incompetent and the insane, with a few people in both camps — and to be fair, a few in neither camp.

A wise man would at some point cut a deal with the other side of the aisle, get the budget passed, get SCHIP reauthorized and get something to show voters other than the constant bickering.

But it is a game of chicken as both sides hurtle toward that cliff in their hot rods. Democratic leaders think they will win because they are a car length ahead.

This greatly amuses Michelle Malkin. The left? Not so much.

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