Can't They Grow Up?

Ok, who out there believes in the filibuster?  Really, doesn't anyone remember Jimmie Stewart, courageously filibustering against the evil special interests, to the point where the enemy finally broke and tried to kill himself?

But that was a "good filibuster", the minority stalling the majority interest for good.

Most of the filibuster history has not been so placid.  For decades, literally decades, the south blocked any desegregation law in the United States Senate.

In those days, the Dixiecrats were part of the Democratic Party, and hamstrung the liberal wing from doing anything, I mean anything, to lessen what was essential apartheid in the United States.

It took the assassination of a President to finally get the Democratic Party to push through a Civil Rights Bill. 

The direct effect of this, was that the Dixiecrats in mass, moved from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party.

This was a seismic shift.  Lyndon Johnson, as he signed the 1964 Civil Rights Bill, said famously, "We will not win another Presidential election in a generation". 

He was almost right.  When he essentially resigned the Presidency, Richard Nixon, who used the "southern strategy" won in 1968 and would have been a two term President, ushering in years of Republican Presidents, if it hadn't been for Watergate.

Now, we see a solid south, blocking President Obama's nominees.  It got so bad, and so racist, that finally Harry Reid called a halt to it, and changed the filibuster rules for appointees only.

Now the Senate is witnessing another slowdown, as southerners basically throw a fit, and are holding up everything with childish tantrums.

It is time to kick these fools out.  It is the same racist crap that held this nation hostage for years in the mid twentieth century.

And it is wrong.  And I hope it kills the Republican Party, which is more divided everyday.

And the real culprits are the same racist segregationists, who now hide behind small government and cut deficits language, but are really the same old apartheid coven....