A new feature of Vermont U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy’s Weblog is said to be
gaining an audience. The feature, called “More From the Floor,” provides an excellent
public service.
It reminds us today, for instance: “The Senate convenes this morning to resume consideration
of S.1805, the Gun Liability bill. While no roll call votes are scheduled to occur today, three
amendments are presently pending to the bill: Senator Kennedy’s S.Amdt.2619 about armor
piercing bullets; Senator Frist’s S.Amdt.2625 also about armor-piercing bullets; and Senator
Campbell’s S.Amdt.2623 about concealed carry.” It even gives up-to-the-minute updates.
(To offer our own public service, here’s a relevant commentary on that bill: “Down and Dirty in the Gun Debate.”)
Not incidentally, “More From the Floor” has been lauded by the Congressional Management
Foundation’s newsletter for, among other things, its “clear and conversational language to make
content accessible to a wide audience.” And it has come in for praise from readers, such as
students in a law class in Pittsburgh, Pa., who messaged: “There really is nothing like it on the
Net.”
As much as we’d like to agree with them, however, we beg to differ. When it comes to
straight talk, is Leahy’s blog any competition for the Washington-based blogger Wonkette? Not a chance. Here, for example, is
Wonkette shooting from the lip in a Feb. 25 entry headlined
UPDATE: Several readers have written in regarding the Federal No
Ass-Fucking Amendment. First of all, to “Worried in Manhattan”: Straight people can do it all
they want. Your wife is wrong to use that excuse. And to “Stick-in-the-Mud in Seattle”: You’re
right, the amendment will not literally prohibit the gays from getting in the rear; in a literal sense,
it will just deny the benefits of marriage to the gays (some of whom practice the back-door love).
But we suspect that what really makes the Bushies uncomfortable is ass-fucking. The idea of it,
we mean.
Or this entry from Feb. 24, headlined “White House: Loves the Sinner,
Finds the Idea of the Sin Icky”:
Bush has just announced his support for a proposed constitutional amendment
to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman. Wonkette has obtained a rough draft
of the document:
Peenies are for sticking in hoo-has. Also, hoo-has may not touch other hoo-has. Unless
we’re talking about two hot chicks. Like Naomi Watts and someone else hot.
The Bush Administration: Preserving the integrity of the Constitution as our Founders
intended.
As a further public service, we suggest that when the presidential debates are arranged later
this year between the Republican and Democratic candidates — and any other candidates who
qualify for the race — Wonkette be included on the panel of questioners. (Actually, required
would be better.)
