Words Like Locusts Flew From Her Fingers

Senator Byrd Has Had Enough

Enough of what is subject to debate.

Dana Milbank – Preaching to the Chorus – washingtonpost.com
” ‘Mission accomplished’ has turned into a commitment to have our grandchildren patrolling Baghdad into the middle of this century!” the chairman [Byrd] chided.

The chorus laughed.

Absolutely true.

“Instead of a coalition of the willing, what we really have is a coalition of contractors!” he admonished.

“That’s right!” the chorus agreed.

Also absolutely true.

And so it continued until Harkin — assisted by “boos” from the hecklers — asked the soon-to-retire Pace about his “very hurtful” views on gays in the military. Pace repeated his view that homosexuality is “counter to God’s law.”

Pace is an idiot. Who’s God?? I don’t think Ganesh cares about homosexuality. Oh…wait. Pace is talking about his personal notion of what the Christian God cares about. And we should base our national policies on Pace’s personal religious beliefs because…. why again??

With that, the chorus erupted, shouting down Pace with a series of chants. Even Byrd decided he had “tolerated all I can stand” and ordered the room cleared.

“The Iraq people have a right to their home!” one of the hecklers shouted as police led her away.

“Senators,” the chairman retorted, “have a right to have a hearing.”

Yeah… well, Byrd did let things get a little out of hand. And, if you read the entire article, you’ll see that he went a bit berserk himself. But he had good reason — the Bush administration has asked for $190 billion dollars to fund the fuckarow in Iraq. Just try wrapping your brain around a figure that huge. Imagine how much alternative energy research that $190 billion could fund. We could put ourselves into a position where we’d never again need to rely on oil from the Middle East. Wouldn’t that be wonderful!