If It Wasn’t So Outrageous It Would Be Funny Part II
Man, there is just no other way to put it… John Cornyn may be the most dimwitted man in the Senate:
“None of your civil liberties matter much after you’re dead,” said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), a former judge and close ally of the president who sits on the Judiciary Committee.
Get that? There is no longer a place for liberty in these here United States (formerly known as the “Sweet Land of Liberty”). Cornyn’s moment of actual anti-American idiocy was in response to the Senate stalemate over the renewal of the “patriot” act.
Thankfully Russ Feingold was there for the perfect retort:
Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), who has led a bipartisan filibuster against a reauthorization of the Patriot Act, quoted Patrick Henry, an icon of the American Revolution, in response: “Give me liberty or give me death.”
He called Cornyn’s comments “a retreat from who we are and who we should be.”
I am very wary of running another senator in 2008, but Feingold’s stock sure has been rising lately here in get donkey! land.
No, that’s why we need him in the Senate.
Comment by Avedon | 12/30/2005
Russ is not up for re-election next year; he can run and still stay in the Senate, and we cheeseheads will be proudly supporting him if he does (I tell him to, every time I see him).
Comment by Orange Mike Lowrey | 12/30/2005