Tuesday, September 4, 2018

But...but...civility

I'm confused. Didn't a parade of Democrat worthies and at least one (admittedly ersatz) Republican (George Bush) recently stand up at John McCain's funeral service and speak in Augustan tones about the civility, bipartisanship and collegiality that distinguished our politics during the late senator's career?

Then how is it possible that the Senate hearing on Judge Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court has borne out H.L. Mencken's observation that modern democracy is like "a circus run from the monkey cage"? Thus far, the hearing has been marked by raucous protests that were actually planned and coordinated by Democratic senators who sit on the committee conducting the hearing. This isn't a hearing, it's just one long, sustained temper tantrum. I hope there are some conservative activists in the room who are capturing this dumpster fire on film; should come in handy during the midterms for reminding voters that Democrats are the soiled-diapers-and-overactive-larynx party. More seriously, and more ominously, this spectacle shows that Democrats are willing to drop democracy (and civility and collegiality and fairness) on a moment's notice in order to get what they want.

We inch ever nearer to civil war, and the thought of being ruled by these ghastly people in perpetuity almost makes me long for it.

Update: Great opening comments from Senator Cruz.

4 comments:

rinardman said...

So again, Cruz concludes, the Democrats are simply trying to undo the will of the American people.

In this case "the American people" = the basket of deplorables who voted for President Trump.

RebeccaH said...

Good for Cruz. It's too bad, though, that the Democrats are incapable of shame.

JeffS said...

The Republicans on that committee are hammering the Democrats hard ... to little effect on those losers.

And it's not the Dems are incapable of learning (which seems to be the case for some of them), it's more that they're desperate, and don't dare stop. Their base -- the tiger, metaphorically speaking -- will eat them.

But it is quite amusing.

Gregoryno6 said...

Great comments from Senator Cruz.
His calm laying out of the facts would have been wasted on Team Disrupt. Too busy getting an ego boost from behaving like preschoolers tanked up on raspberry cordial.