Windbags and blowhards (Daschle and Byrd)

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Sunday, September 29, 2002

"That is outrageous, outrageous," said Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, South Dakota's wimpy Democrat windbag who couldn't quite get the timing right of simultaneously speaking and whipping off his glasses in orchestrated disgust.

It's "despicable," added Sen. Robert Byrd, the blue-haired blowhard Democrat from West Virginia, doing a lousy impression of Sylvester, the cartoon cat. It's "Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!" he shouted, offering a credible caricature of Foghorn Leghorn.

But quickly lost in the Democrats' cartoonish outrage over President Bush's remarks that the Senate, et al., "is more interested in special interests in Washington and not interested in the security of the American people" is what the Daschles and Byrds of this debate really are defending.

A homeland security bill is slogging its way through the Democrat-controlled Senate. Watering the marsh in which it's stalled is an insistence (led by Republican Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island) that employees of any new Department of Homeland Security be given civil service protection.

That is, the Senate wants to make sure that our domestic national security is ensconced in a rigid, unionized system that, by its very nature, cannot be fleet-footed enough to meet the challenge. Neither can its drones easily be held accountable — i.e., quickly fired — for the nonperformance that is endemic to government civil servants.

This is what's truly "outrageous," Sen. Daschle. This is what's clearly "despicable," Sen. Byrd.

Incredibly, Sens. Wimpy Windbag and Blue-haired Blowhard are demanding an apology from President Bush. The American people should be demanding an apology from — if not the resignations of — Daschle and Byrd.

-- Anonymous, September 30, 2002


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