In what world
does this make any sense, from any point of view, for anyone, of any political party, on any of the known planets?
The post-nuclear Senate is a strange place.
Forty-one Republican senators voted Wednesday to filibuster Pedro A. Delgado Hernandez of Puerto Rico, a nominee to be a U.S. district court judge.
Their attempt failed because under new rules established by Democrats, "cloture" on most presidential nominees requires a simple majority, rather than 60 votes. So the nominee moved forward, 57-41.
Then the Senate proceeded to a final vote on the nomination, which passed 98-0, capturing the Republican senators who had just attempted to filibuster Delgado.
"The world's greatest deliberative body," is how they like to refer to themselves. The biggest sham, the most corrupt, cynical, self-absorbed, proudly ignorant, arrogant, disinterested in the common weal, shameless group of people to have gathered in one place since Alcatraz was closed. Is how I'd refer to them.
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