tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post4317071504001629081..comments2024-03-28T08:09:19.073-05:00Comments on driftglass: Harry Reid's Brilliant Capitulationist Filibuster Strategy driftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-72956305702175789222013-02-14T23:54:10.710-06:002013-02-14T23:54:10.710-06:00I've wondered from the first if the nomination...I've wondered from the first if the nomination wasn't a ruse for exactly this reason.<br /><br />They knew he wouldn't be confirmed.<br /><br />But it's provided the intriguing (to some) spectacle of the Dims' embracing the right-wing "moderates" in an effort to be inclusive (truly democratic).<br /><br />And, no, it's not an 11-dimensional chess move that results in the "Ah" moment of the audience's sudden acknowledgement of the integrity level of the Rethugs. (As if they really played chess.)<br /><br />It just moves the game along after a brief intermission as we get back to the reality of impending permanent fascism with its massive war budgets, drone bombings, torture, rape of the wimmens, and never leaving the people of Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Mali . . . and Iran alone again.<br /><br />After all, as Jesse Helms said about the Panama Canal, "We stole it fair and square."Cirzehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.com