Filibustero

PBU21 topic this week is the nuclear option. Maybe I've reached the age where I don't mind the little things, but the concern for the "nuclear option" is a waste of time. Swatting at gnats when we should be arresting vermin. Demanding their impeachment and trial for war crimes. Holding political feet to the fire for an illegal war, high crimes, false demeanors, and looting the nation. Instead, the powers that be "filibuster" us. Distract, distract, distract.

Why the concern with republicans forcing a vote to a simple majority to appoint conservative nominees? Where was the concern when Nixon appointed Renquist, Ford appointed Stevens, Reagan appointed O'Connor, Scalia, and Kennedy, and Bush 1 appointed Souter and Thomas? Jesus, the republicans have been packing the bench for 20 years without nary a whine from the democrats. Why stop them now? Granted, a couple of these judges are moderate to middling conservatives but recall that 7 of these clowns willingly handed the 2000 election to BushCo. Could a full bench load of rightwingers do any worse? The same clamorous politicians were voting in favor of Rice, Negreponte, Goss, Gonzales, Chertoff, and the rest of Bush muscle men. The time to worry about our "democracy" is long past, at least by 5 years. Democrats complaining Republicans are trying to circumvent the rules is a war late and a few billion dollars short. As I said a few months ago, we've gotten the government we deserve. And so have Democrats.

I'm bothered more by the term "nuclear option." Politicians and MSM using militaristic jargon to describe this senate scenario, as recently written in the WaPo: "when the nuclear option is deployed." Using "ground zero" to describe the WTC site, and other blast-us-to-hell lingo. I sometimes wonder if we're being prepped for the use of nukes. With a blivet* as CIC perhaps we should look to the first definition of filibuster /filibustero ; freebooter, an American engaged in fomenting insurrections in Latin America in the mid-19th century. Come home to roost karma. The free booty is what the corporopoliticos take while stirring political nit storms which the media prattles and bloggers chatter on, as if the current nit is the worst indignation our republic/democracy has suffered.

*Blivet: small, useless, unnecessary or superfluous;10 pounds of shit in a 5 pound bag; self-important and full of himself; Devil’s pitchfork. Definition depending on time, place, and generation.