So Hillary Clinton
thinks the House of Representatives is being "run like a
plantation." And, she added, "you know what I'm talking
about."
First of all: Think
about what a weird coincidence it is that Hillary would have made
these remarks in a black church in Harlem on Martin Luther King
Day. What are the odds? Did she even know it was a holiday? Bravely
spoken, Senator. I haven't been this surprised since finding out
Hollywood likes a movie about gay cowboys.
As Hillary explained,
the House "has been run in a way so that nobody with a contrary
view has had a chance to present legislation, to make an argument,
to be heard."
Yes, that's what was
really missing on plantations during the slavery era: the opportunity
to present a contrary view. Gosh, if only the slaves had been
allowed to call for cloture votes. What a difference that would
have made!
Madam Hillary also
said the Bush administration "will go down in history as
one of the worst that has ever governed our country." While
Hillary is certainly qualified to comment on what the all-time
worst presidential administrations were, having had firsthand
experience in one of them, I think she might want to avoid the
phrase "go down in history."
All I can say is:
It's a good thing we had a stealth candidate like Harriet Miers
to tiptoe past these powerful, scary Democrats! Sorry if that
sounds churlish, but after Judge Samuel Alito's magnificent performance
last week, I think Republicans can stop being afraid of their
shadows when it comes to our judicial nominees.
Ever since
Bork, Republicans have been terrified of nominating candidates
with something in their background that might possibly suggest
the nominee did not get down on his knees (another phrase Hillary
should avoid) and thank God for Roe v. Wade every night.
That's how we ended up with mediocrities like David Hackett Souter
and Anthony "Third Choice" Kennedy on the Supreme Court.
Besides being stunningly
qualified, the characteristics of the current stellar Supreme
Court nominee include these:
His mother immediately
told the press, "Of course he's against abortion."
He had expressed
support for the Reagan administration's positions on abortion
in a 1985 memo.
He refused
to accede to the Democrats' endless browbeating and tell them
that Roe was "settled law."
And the Democrats
couldn't lay a finger on him. Sam Alito marks the final purging
of the Bork experience.
All the Democrats
could do was scream about his inactive membership -- back in the
'70s -- in CAP, Concerned Alumni of Princeton, which had a magazine
called Prospect, which once ran an article, apparently
satirical, complaining about Princeton admitting co-eds. In my
mind, the only potentially disqualifying aspect of Alito's record
was that he wasn't a more active member of CAP, a group opposed
to quotas, set-asides and the lowering of academic standards at
Princeton.
Then this week, we
found out Sen. Teddy Kennedy still belongs to an organization
that doesn't admit women. Oh -- also, he killed a girl.
I'm fairly certain
I've mentioned that before -- I don't recall, Mr. Chairman --
but I don't understand why everyone doesn't mention it every time
Senator Drunkennedy has the audacity to talk about how "troubled"
and "concerned" he is about this or that nominee. I
bet Mary Jo was "troubled" and "concerned"
about the senator leaving her in trapped in a car under water
while he went back to the hotel to create an alibi.
It's not as if Democrats
can say: OK, OK! The man paid a price! Let it go! He didn't pay
a price. The Kopechne family paid a price. Kennedy weaved away
scot-free.
But the Democrats
are "troubled" about Sam Alito's membership in Concerned
Alumni of Princeton 30 years ago. If they're "concerned"
about lifetime appointments for people with memberships in "troubling"
organizations, wait until they hear about Bob Byrd! (Former Kleagle,
Ku Klux Klan.)
They're a rotten bunch,
these Democrats, and I'm happy to see an end to their reign of
terror.
Now that Zell Miller
is out of office, the only office-holding Democrat I like anymore
is Ray Nagin, mayor of New Orleans. I had never heard of him until
Hurricane Katrina, but after his "gaffe" this week,
he's my favorite Democrat. I like a politician who casually spouts
off insanely politically incorrect remarks in front of large audiences
and TV cameras.
Nagin cheerfully told
a crowd gathered for a Martin Luther King Day celebration that
New Orleans would soon be "Chocolate City" again. I
don't know who's supposed to be offended by that. I'm not. Perhaps
all the white mayors who know they couldn't have said it. True,
life's unfair. Oh well.
When it comes to choice-of-word
crimes, I'd prefer detente to mutually assured destruction. Lead
us off the chocolate plantation, Mayor Nagin!
Copyright
2006 Ann Coulter
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