Jon Stewart on the election of Franken as a Democrat senator, bringing their total to 60 - enough to be "filibuster-proof".
On comments by rightwinf journalists that the Republicans will now be unable to stop the Democrats, Mr. Stewart remarked: "They're Democrats. I'm pretty sure they'll find a way to stop themselves!"
I would hesitate to call the Democrats in the USA "leftwing", or even "leftish", but they're not actively rightwing. And it seems that any non-rightwing party with even the slightest hint of principles is destined to do precisely that. It's why the Ruight always seems to rebound just when we finally think they're dead, buried, stake through the heart, head chopped off, silver bullet, the works.
Hell, if the Democrats were actually half the things that the rightwing scraemongers claim, then they'd have actually managed to do something in the past 60 years or so, right?
Saturday, 4 July 2009
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True that. Bill Maher recently talked about this at the end of his show.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtUAHPYYzeM
Al Franken is a big-time lefty, but the Senate is designed to be more moderate. Democrats in the Senate are going to vote for anything that's the tiniest bit progressive. I don't think Franken is going to vote against, for example, a public option in a healthcare reform bill because it doesn't cover abortion services. Senators are going to take what they can get, even if that means screwing a lot of people.