On the Issue of the Filibuster

When the Dems were in the minority Republicans inveighed against the use of the filibuster. In 2005 David Boaz, executive vice president of the Cato Institute if memory serves, rightfully warned them then that what comes around goes around.

Now in the distinct minority Republicans--I almost said "we" but I'm much more of a conservative than a Republican--could use some of that filibustering.

And these words that open his very fine blog entry should be committed to memory:

The United States is a republic, not a majoritarian democracy. The Founders were rightly afraid of majoritarian tyranny, and they wrote a Constitution designed to thwart it.

So true. The Constitution, whence are laws spring, does not use the word equality until I believe the Fourteenth Amendment. The document is a conservative one, in which the writers purposively use less "small d" democratic language than the Declaration.

I really wish Bush II had not used all that democracy talk with respect to Iraq. What a thankless task he set us up to do!