Just out of curiousity...when did politics get so chock full of

[Thtwudbeme]

whiny assed little motherfuckers that apparently need smelling salts, a full time nanny, and a fainting couch?

I think that "kinder, gentler" bullshit had something to do with this sorry state of affairs, personally.

[RandomKoolzip]

1. It's all subjective.

Rightists would probably call THIS post whiny. Pretty much anyone I disagree with I could call "whiny."

Those with legitimate grievances get tarred with the "whine" brush by those they disagree with...and no one ever admits to losing an argument.

[Lance_Boyle]

2. there's a fine line

between whining and cane-beating on the House floor. I'd like to see more of the latter, personally.

[Thtwudbeme]

3. You mean like Butler from SC got back in the late 1800's?

that must have been spectacular, eh?

[Lance_Boyle]

4. precisely who I was thinking of.

Wouldn't it be ever so cathartic to see Robert Byrd beating Lindsay Graham about the head with a cane, though?

[Thtwudbeme]

5. absolutely

now that you mention it, yes. That does make me feel cheerier.

Actually, when I wrote this I was thinking of Sen. Sam Ervin. He was a family friend; I knew him as a child. I was thinking of Bobby Kennedy.

Politicians used to have guts. Now they are just little pansies. I am so sick of the lot of them.