Wednesday, April 20, 2005

Holy Crap! Is that republican dissent I smell?

I watched a good chunk of this last night on C-Span, but turned it off before the surprise ending. Go Senator George V. Voinovich of Ohio Go! A republican politician actually listened to what Democratic Senators Biden and Dodd had to say, and voted to postpone the sending of the nomination of John Bolton to the full Senate, while we all watched Senators Hagel and Chafee for their possible defection from the president's wishes.

"I don't know if I've ever seen, in a setting like this, a senator changing his mind as a result of what other senators said," Mr. Chafee said. "The process worked. It's kind of refreshing."

In other dissent news the republican-dominated Utah legislature passed a bill Tuesday that orders state officials to ignore provisions of the federal "No Child Left Behind" law. This in addition to the ethically challenged Congressman Delay attacking Reagan appointed Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy and other republican appointed "judicial activists". Are the walls of the red fortress starting to crack?

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