Potemkin Parliament Pajama Party :: SteynOnline
by Mark Steyn • Mar 11, 2014
Good news for fake Nobel Laureate Michael E Mann. Iran is launching an Islamic Nobel Prize to be named after Mustafa (ie, Mohammed). Given that he wants it so badly, maybe we can nominate Dr Mann for a Mustafa Prize.
~Speaking of "climate change", did you stay up all night to watch the all-night Senate "debate"? Me neither. Sitting in for Rush yesterday, I breezily compared the Senate's so-called "talkathon" to Kim Jong-Un's impressive 100 per cent of the vote on a 100 per cent voter turnout in his "election" to North Korea's "legislative assembly". Senators Barbara Boxer, Sheldon Whitehouse, Angus King and the rest of the "Senate Climate Action Task Force" were engaging in an act of parliamentary fakery quite as absurd as Kim's "election".
For a start, it was not a filibuster: Usually, when someone goes full Jimmy Stewart and stands on his feet and talks for hours, it's to try to block a piece of legislation. But there was no legislation before the Senate. So the Democrats were just talking for the sake of talking. Which in turn raises the question of why there isn't any bill to debate. After all, Democrats control the Senate. So, if they want to pass a climate-change bill, they can do so any time they want. Instead, they decided to engage in an act of theatre, using the chamber of the Senate as a stage set on which to act out their lame summer-stock let's-do-the-show-right-here-in-the-Senate version of Mr Smith Goes To Washington.
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