Senate Unable To Get Enough Republican Votes To Honor 'To Kill A Mockingbird'

[joeybee12]

WASHINGTON—Unable to find a single Republican senator willing to break ranks and support the measure, Senate Democrats failed Thursday to stop the filibuster of S. 6253, a one-page resolution recognizing the 50th anniversary of Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird. "We almost had Scott Brown (R-MA) on board, but he balked when members of his party insisted the book only be commended if its court-room scenes were shortened a bit and the setting changed to Nebraska," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), explaining the procedural difficulties in passing legislation to honor the classic tale of a small-town lawyer's tireless efforts to defend an innocent man. "If we'd agreed to all their compromises, we'd have wound up with a watered-down version of the novel containing only seven of its original 31 chapters." At press time, Republicans said they would be willing to resume negotiations if the beloved work of American literature is revised so that Tom Robinson is a small-businessman wrongly accused of failing to provide employees with health benefits and Scout is a boy.


Did you think it was real or....

http://www.theonion.com/articles/senate-unable-to-get-enough-republican-votes-to-ho,17848/

[SpiralHawk]

1. The Ugly Republicon - this is too likely to be anything but believeable

The Republicon Homelanders would indeed be likely vote in unison against decency, honesty, and justice as American virtues. Difficult for the Onion to parody what is all too likely to be possible...

[RandomThoughts]

2. You make an interesting comment.

Did you think it was real or....

When I had that question about many things, I ran a series of test to look for action and reaction, and from that you can tell what is real and what is not.

However regardless of what is real, that does not change that I do not have financing for beer, and that will be a problem that is solved. :)

AC/DC Thunderstruck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvoeeq-BH4w

[peekaloo]

3. I think it had more to do with Boo Radley's later ties with organized crime.

;-)

[Deep13]

4. The Onion: more real than reality. nt

[YOY]

5. Well...we all know that the Ewells are the cornerstone of the Republican base...

The Onion just puts it in writing.

[Jim__]

6. I thought it was real. I didn't think it was surprising. - n/t

[joeybee12]

7. Yeah, you can see the repukes doing this...I did a google search to

see if I could find anything like this actually happening...nothing, though.