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March 15, 2006

Censure: A Tragedy in One Scene

I
was out of the country when Russ Feingold went all censurious on the President's you-know-what -- a move, incidentally, that I quite admire -- but a friend who is an astute political observer captured the "debate" I missed in the following one-act play:
FEINGOLD: The President broke the law. We should censure him.

WINGNUTS: Dems are crazy extremists, rabid with Bush hatred, committing political suicide.

LIBS: Russ is a saint. He has courage. Other Dem politicians are weak, simpering, without principles.

ESTABLISHMENT DEMS: [cue crickets]

OTHER LIBS: Russ For President!

STILL OTHER LIBS: He can't win, he's Jewish and divorced.

LIBS: Can too! BTW, wasn't Dean the greatest? Feingold's kinda like Dean.

ESTABLISHMENT DEMS: Um...

MORE LIBS: I'm pretty sure they don't like Jews and divorced people out in those big square states.

LIBS: Well, anyway, I'm for Russ and his censure motion. Send him flowers!

OTHER LIBS: He won't accept them - for "ethical" reasons.

LIBS: Well then, send him money.

STILL OTHER LIBS: This shouldn't be about money.

WINGNUTS: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!! These people are unbelievable!

DEM SENATORS: Fuckin' Feingold!

LIBS: Dean really was great. Is Nader still around?

Curtain.

Posted by Eric at March 15, 2006 2:24 PM

Comments

Cue crickets?

Posted by: tfw at March 15, 2006 3:11 PM

Russ for President!

Posted by: Chuchundra at March 15, 2006 4:35 PM

Well done, Professor!

Posted by: anonymouslawyer at March 15, 2006 9:28 PM

Your "friend" is a funny one.

Posted by: The Heretik at March 15, 2006 10:02 PM

Except that Russ Feingold is nothng like Howard Dean (I suspect Dean, had he been my Senator would not be single handedly responsible for Ashcroft becoming Attorney General), otherwise the point is almost not pointless.

I respect Russ for what he's trying to do, I wish he could have at least brought Kohl along with him.

But, you know, you buy into Russ and you need to drink a ton of Kool-Aid to get past some of the other idiocy he's going to pull.

He loves debate. He'll vote to pass anyone on to the floor for a vote if there's a debate he can feel good about allowing to happen. He won't care that this debate is certain to end up hurting the Kool-Aid drinkers who praise him; because, he's pricipled man.

Hope he pulls out the Elvis commercials on a national level. They're going to eat him alive.

Minor Leaguer with a good fastball, it tantalizes you, but it's all he's got. He's never going to win in the Bigs.

Posted by: Lettuce at March 16, 2006 1:02 AM

Fantastic, utterly fantastic.

Posted by: Ginzer at March 16, 2006 1:25 AM

Bravo, but you are playing into a wrong stereotype. It's Republicans and/or southerners that tend to get divorced, and often still elected... Reagan, McConnell, Campbell, Bond, Gingrich, Warner, Hutchison, McCain (gasp!), Jessica Simpson.

Posted by: K at March 16, 2006 12:39 PM