The Daily Show – Political Theater By Manila Ryce (video link)

Dandelion Salad

By Manila Ryce
Published Thursday, July 19th, 2007, 6:37 am

Jon Stewart does a brilliant job of explaining the most recent Democratic failure. John Oliver then joins us to critique this contrived and tedious political theater, and how the drama between the US and this War is just a rehash of classics which came before. As Oliver points out, it really is the worst type of theater, in which actors lack any real sense of passion and even the convincing ones like Hillary are simply pandering to the audience.

Stewart’s Money Quote: While Democrats have a majority in the Senate, they don’t have the 60 vote super majority needed to bring bills like this to a vote, thus forcing the Democrats to stay up all night to prevent the Republicans from staging an all night vote-blocking filibuster. You can see why we’re fighting so hard to export this type of government to Iraq.

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