I just noticed that C-Span has a links page for blogs. How is it that Cybercast News Service and Free Republic merit a listing under Individual/Group Blogs? I don’t see Democratic Underground [Blog Box] or AntiWar.Com listed there, or AntiWar.com’s blog, for that matter. And where is Lew Rockwell, site or blog, and Liberty & Power, for starters?
Browsing the Free Republic’s “blog” link, which appears to be members posting items from blogs that aren’t theirs, I noticed they’re organising a march for April 7 to oppose the Democrats’ filibustering of Bush’s judicial nominations.
The reason they state March for Justice II is necessary (the first being their march to demand Clinton’s impeachment over lying about consensual, extra-marital sex) is because “we stand at the crossroad of what kind of judiciary we will have: One that is restrained by the Constitution, or one that abridges our rights by making it up as they go along.”
They cheered-on Republicans who threatened Democrats with filibusters. At least they’re not warning their leaders to be on the look-out for assassins.
Their blinkered reasoning is as deceptive as C-Span’s blog links are unfairly representative of a broad spectrum of opinion.
Social Insecurity
“The president, whose approval ratings are down on almost every issue, has yet to sell the country on his plan for Social Security”
Neutering the filibuster would be unpopular with Americans, nearly six in ten (57 percent) of whom would disapprove. Even one-third (33 percent) of Republicans say they would object to such a move.
So much for “We, the people” and a change they would certainly regret when their party is in the minority.