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I don't enjoy being pessimistic, and certainly not just for the fun of it, but in this case, the case of our two Senators from Virginia, I can logically arrive at no other conclusion.
Remember how sneaky and clever politicians are. When the House passed their version of the health care disaster a couple weeks ago, and as is the case with most other major legislation, it is all a big show. Pelosi knew she had enough votes to pass it, and as the vote approached she started handing out permission to cast "no" votes to the Members who would be the most damaged by a "yes" vote. Then they made a huge show of the fact that it passed, and with 5 votes to spare. What suckers we all are, they must think. I personally think the only reason they had 5 to spare is that Pelosi was afraid that 2 or 3 rogue Members might bail on her.
Same way with this brief. These Senators are not dumb. They are either lawyers, or they have lawyers on their staff and in their war rooms. They can read the writing on the wall. I think it's fairly obvious that in one way or another, this court case is going to come down on our side in a substantial way, and having studied the case at hand and the recent precedents, everyone knows this.
So they're going to lose this round, and as we have all come to know from the White House staff, "never waste a crisis".
So they get all the "moderate" Senators to sign on with this brief which gives them a bright "moderate flag" to waive back home for their "friends" in the NRA.
But they think we're stupid. They think we're too dumb to remember that despite an outpouring of opposition, both of our fine Senators voted to confirm both Eric Holder, the most anti-gun Attorney General in the history of the country, as well as Sonya Sotomayor, who has a long track record of rulings that were subsequently overturned by the Supreme Court. (What other profession grants a promotion when you make the wrong decision in something like 6 out of 7 major cases?) And she's proud of her racist roots, claiming that she as a Latina Woman can make better rulings than others of different ethnicity and gender.
No, I will not be writing the two Senators a letter of thanks. I don't want to give them even more to laugh at than they already have.
TFred