Major Victory for Wisdom of Lincoln

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Senator Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut, who spoke on the Senate floor for more than 20 hours in an unsuccessful effort to stall the wiretapping bill, said the vote would be remembered by future generations as a test of whether the country heeds “the rule of law or the rule of men.”

Au contraire, Senator Oddd, the vote might be remembered by future generations, if at all, as a glimmer of hope that a vestige of sanity remains within the current majority party of the Senate. On the 199th anniversary of our greatest, arguably wisest, and certainly most eloquent President's birth, and in the sesquicentennial year of his “House Divided Against Itself” speech, the upper house of the bicameral United States Congress managed to overcome the self-destructive efforts of the lunatic fringe. Now the more numerous, and possibly more rabid, lunatics in the lower house must be persuaded to wipe the foam off their chins, take a deep breath, get a tighter grip on reality, gather their wits (I'm reaching), and consider who the real enemy of our great country is — those who want to destroy us and our way of life.

To quote Joseph Nye Welch, who represented the U.S. Army in the Army-McCarthy hearings held in the U.S. Senate in April through June 1954, “You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?”