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Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski makes a "French Toast" towards
the Republican Senators left at home in Washington. |
Inspired by the success of Texas Democratic legislators, Democratic members
of the US Senate discovered their rights as the "loyal opposition"
over the weekend. Charged by Senate firebrands such as Tom Harkin of Iowa
and Barbara Mikulski of Maryland, the renegade group of 44 Democrats was
discovered in Bordeaux, France vineyard, sampling their suddenly rising
poll numbers. "This isn't quite Ardmore, Oklahoma," Harkin said,"
but the heat here is not quite as intense. |
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heat was on the resident of the US White House, Mikulski added, noting
that if six sympathetic Republicans joined them, as planned, there would
no longer be a quorum in the US Senate to consent to his proposed US Supreme
Court nominations. Mikulski said by nominating Muleshoe, Texas Judge Attila
Hun to the Supreme Court, George W. Bush had angered even the last surviving
GOP moderates. "It's not so much that Mr. Hun is against the right
of women to choose whether or not they could have an abortion, "Mikulski
said, " Mr. Hun is against the right of a woman to choose her own
husband!"
The appointment of Mr. Hun (the law west of the Pecos!) to the US Supreme
Court is another sign that the Bush administration is drifting rightward
in its judicial appointments. The Texas judge has vehemently ruled in
favor of the death penalty in cases where someone is accused of killing
a white man, speeding through Muleshoe or voting for Democrats. He has
also imposed stiff fines on those he believes are a part of the "criminal
element" in West Texas, such as drug dealers, homosexuals and members
of the Evangelical Lutheran Church.
Senate Democrats say they are prepared to stay in France "as long
as the wine lasts," to prevent the appointment of Hun to the Supreme
Court. Republicans such as Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican
who worked vigorously to remove French fries from the Capitol cafeteria
and replaced them with "freedom fries," said the Democrats in
France should be charged with "treason." Graham said at a time
when Americans can barely pay their maids on their dividend tax refund,
"Democrats are fleeing from their sanity into the vineyards of our
enemies."
Some Republicans, however, are considering an open rebellion against their
own commander-in-chief, as they consider the actions of their Democratic
counterparts and the wine list available in France. Senator Lincoln Chafee,
a proud descendent of a traditional New England GOP family, said Bush
might be better off he recalled the results of the last election. "I
don't quite believe that losing the popular vote gives a leader a mandate
to move as far to the right as possible," Chafee said.
Some Democrats like Georgia's Zel Miller and Connecticut's Joe Liebermann
are not quite joining the overseas protest either. "I don't think
Democrats should make too much noise, or Mr. Bush might be angry with
us," Miller said.
"I think Democrats should take a closer look at Mr. Hun, and see
his good parts," Lieberman told a Connecticut reporter. "My
staff is working hard all day and night looking for Mr. Hun's good parts."
The White House meanwhile is looking into criminal charges against the
errant Democrats in France. White House spokesman Ari Fleisher told a
press conference that Democrats should never "misunderestimate the
Bush administration and its goal of limiting freedom." French authorities
should know that if its harbors these terrorists — these weapons
of mass obstruction, " Mr. Bush said, "President Chiraq might
want to join Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein in their cave.
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