Sowell - Wimps "R" Us

From Human Events Online, Thomas Sowell lets the Seven Dwarfs and the rest of the Pansy Party have it with both barrels.

The Senate Democrats hung tough and the Republicans wimped out. The Republicans had the votes but they didn't have the guts.

That is the bottom line on the compromise agreement that will allow votes to proceed on judicial nominees without a filibuster, except in "extraordinary" cases. In other words, the Democrats will filibuster only when they feel like filibustering, since they will define what "extraordinary" means to them.

Although the Republicans have more votes in the Senate, and also have Vice-President Cheney to cast the deciding vote in case of a tie, the Democrats stuck together. None of them went around wringing their hands in the media about how hard it would be for them to support their party if it came to a vote.

Unity often beats disunity, even when the side that is unified is smaller.

Exactly. Will often trumps numbers.

Just like the Bolsheviks:

At the Second Congress of the Social Democratic Labour Party in London in 1903, there was a dispute between Vladimir Lenin and Julius Martov, two of SDLP's leaders. Lenin argued for a small party of professional revolutionaries with a large fringe of non-party sympathizers and supporters. Martov disagreed believing it was better to have a large party of activists.

(Thanks to Spartacus Educational, my favorite commie website. Visiting their site is like reading Nietzsche. Each is almost always spouting the exact opposite of the truth. No, that is not quite fair to the Spartacus folks. Let me say they present a rather selective version of the truth. But Nietzsche just saw everything backwards. )

BTW, are you wondering what happened to Citizen Martov? He was one of the lucky few who got to die in exile of natural (apparently) causes.