Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Definition of Insanity


Benjamin Franklin is credited with saying that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Sage advice...if followed. Perfect explanation for the latest GOP political move.

OK, seriously? Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is the man the Republicans want on point for the fight over President Obama's upcoming Supreme Court nomination? The same Republican party that has, according to many pols, become a regionalized party? The party that is currently on a re-branding tour of America to improve their image with, well, everyone but the most conservative American voters?

Probably not the best choice...

MSNBC, today, points out at that Sessions was nominated for a federal judgeship by President Reagan over twenty years ago, and subsequently turned down for several reasons pertaining to his attitudes regarding civil rights. The network cites sources that have accused Sessions of participating in "politically motivated" charges of voter fraud against African-American leaders while he was a U.S. Attorney in Southern Alabama. MSNBC also cites others who claimed to have heard Sessions refer to a white civil rights lawyer as a "disgrace to his race".

Probably not the best choice. However, if the GOP wants to continue wandering the political nether regions for the foreseeable future, then by all means they need to stick with this strategy. It appears that Republicans are more than content to continue charging the windmill that is changing American demographics--a decision that can only lead to more lost elections--and isolation from the majority of America.

General Grant once said, "“In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.” Apparently that GOP is taking his advice. This is probably not the context he in which he would have offered it though...

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