Legal Commentary

I Expect the Memory Hole to Be Very Busy

By Professor University of Miami School of Law

Eschaton is one of the first to speculate about all the GOP talking points that are about to be subjected to major forgetting.

To his “Up or down vote” I’d add all the stuff about respecting the commander in chief.

[Lest I be misunderstood, I’d like to note that

(1) I don’t think filibusters are inherently wrong, even when they block things I like;

(2) I do think a great deal of the ‘respect for the CIC’ talk was wrong-headed, an attempt to shut down meaningful debates that should have taken place; but,

(3) I have a very low tolerance for hypocrisy.]

Full post as published by Discourse.net on November 08, 2008 (boomark / email).