The second link's pretty much got it right, as best I recall. (The first one's to an utter loon -g/ng)
BC, most everyone I know has f'd up big time somewhere along the way, and we all know there's one law for the rich and another for the poor, whether it's Teddy, shrub, or Cheney and his multiple deferments from the draft and the ICC.
But this "they're all the same" cynicism lets the perfect be the enemy of the good while ignoring very real policy differences.
digbysblog.blogspot.com
If his name were Edward Moore . . .
If his name were Edward Moore, Robert Bork might be on the Supreme Court today. Robert Dole might have been elected president of the United States. There might still be a draft. There would not have been the Civil Rights Act of 1991, which overturned seven Supreme Court decisions that Kennedy saw as rolling back the gains of the civil rights movement; the 1990 Americans With Disabilities Act, the most wide-ranging civil rights bill since the original ones in the 1960s; the Kennedy-Kassebaum Bill of 1996, which allows "portability" in health care coverage; or any one of the 35 other initiatives - large and small, on everything from Medicare to the minimum wage to immigration reform - that Kennedy, in opposition and in the minority, managed to cajole and finesse through the Senate between 1996 and 1998, masterfully defusing the Gingrich Revolution and maneuvering Dole into such complete political incoherence that Bill Clinton won reelection in a walk. None of this would have happened, if his name were Edward Moore. |
