Rejoice

Jumping The Fence

Mark Steyn

“ On the eve of Independence Day, the people of this great republic declared their independence from the United States Senate under the stirring battle-cry, "No legislation without explanation!" The geniuses who'd cooked up the "comprehensive" immigration bill's "grand bargain" behind the scenes in the pork-filled rooms had originally planned to ram it through in 48 hours before Memorial Day. And, right to the end, the bipartisan Emirs-for-life of Incumbistan gave the strong impression they regarded it as an affront to be required by the impertinent whippersnappers of the citizenry to address the actual content of the legislation. Senator Lindsay Graham (R, South Carolina) dismissed critics of the bill as "racist." Senator George Voinovich (R, Ohio) complained that the peasants had somehow got hold of his phone number and he felt "intimidated." Senator Trenthorn Lotthorn (R, Lottissippi) said: who cares if they call? They could call 1-800-BLOWHARD (and leave off the "D" for "Deal's already done") 24 hours a day and he still wasn't going to listen to them. "To think that you're going to intimidate a senator," he scoffed, "into voting one way or the other by gorging your phones with phone calls — most of whom don't even know where Gulfport is." ( Gulfport is a port in the Gulf emirate whose grateful people Sultan Trent has ruled o'er lo these many years.) [continued] ”