05/23/05

If the Republicans win on the nuclear option, a fateful line will have been crossed that takes us one step further away from the democracy we grew up thinking we could rely on. This is not about Senate rules, it's not about Bill Frist's presidential ambitions, and in the long-term, it's not even about the judiciary. [It] is about the consolidation of governmental power within the modern ultra-conservative movement. ... This is counter to everything the American system of government was supposed to be about." [editor's note: This writer claims, in the subheading, that "The nuclear option is about the consolidation of governmental power -- and no, both sides don't do that." That is the only blatant lie in the whole text; the Dems have been abusing their power position to advantage for decades! - SAT]

http://www.prospect.org/web/view-web.ww?id=9746

from The American Prospect, by Michael Tomasky


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp