Thursday, July 20, 2006
Sanctimony Thursday in the Senate
The Voting Rights bill, complete with its expansion of bilingual ballots, is on the Senate floor right now.
Dick Durbin (D-IL) has already complained that he wished he could have marched in Selma but he had to work. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) has complained that there are actually lines to vote in inner cities and that their voting machines are the oldest.
Senators are lining up to explain how strongly they support the Voting Rights Act. George Allen seemed to be channeling Hubert Humphrey. "Everyone" agrees the Voting Rights Act was the right thing to do. Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
Yet many of these same Senators who marvel today that there were actually people who once did not recognize the humanity of African Americans, were foaming at the mouth over President Bush's veto of federal funding of experiments on unborn human beings.
What will those alive in 2047 think of those who proudly made those arguments?
|posted by Jim on 12:23 PM|
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