Ethics

Dumbass Quote of the Day

By Ed Brayton

This is one of the weirdest statements I've seen in a long time, in reaction to the passage of the health care reform bill in the Senate:

"We are now functioning under a parliamentary form of government," says Sen. Judd Gregg (R., N.H.) in a conversation with NRO. "An ideological supermajority in Congress, along with a government run by community organizers, has taken over."

What in the world does the second sentence have to do with the first? The second sentence just means "a majority of my fellow Senators are voting for things I don't like." But how on earth does that change our form of government to a parliamentary one? We still only have two parties. This is some weird form of word salad.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on December 23, 2009 (boomark / email).