So... juis before the weekend, the almost best filibuster EVAH was carried out by a texan lady with brass ovaries... Wendy #Davis. The coverage was awesome.
Not so awesome was the response of that half-witted entitlement Bush wannabe Perry. Texas is so weird... And he was so out of line with his personal counter attack, I'm sure he'll not get much traction out of his egregious reaction.
A friend gave me a present two days later... a restored version of Mr.Smith Goes to Washington on dvd. The timing was so ironic. I hadn't seen it in over forty years, and it was from the golden year 1939.
Needless to say, it became so timely when watching, I got goose bumps. James Stewart has to defend himself at the end by staging a filibuster, which in those days was a rare and nearly unused procedure in the Senate.
Although nowadays, all anyone has to do is say filibuster, and the process gets shut dwon, back then, it was dramatic. It jmade me cry... not because it was a moving story and is a masterpiece of filmmaking, but because of how relevant it is to today. I would reccomend it to all who have an interest in history, and see how nothing changed, but indeed, became worse.
Wendy Davis of Texas became the real-life James Stewart of today by standing up and giving the state senate bore than it ever bargained for. Good on her. I'm sure she'll go far.
Not so awesome was the response of that half-witted entitlement Bush wannabe Perry. Texas is so weird... And he was so out of line with his personal counter attack, I'm sure he'll not get much traction out of his egregious reaction.
A friend gave me a present two days later... a restored version of Mr.Smith Goes to Washington on dvd. The timing was so ironic. I hadn't seen it in over forty years, and it was from the golden year 1939.
Needless to say, it became so timely when watching, I got goose bumps. James Stewart has to defend himself at the end by staging a filibuster, which in those days was a rare and nearly unused procedure in the Senate.
Although nowadays, all anyone has to do is say filibuster, and the process gets shut dwon, back then, it was dramatic. It jmade me cry... not because it was a moving story and is a masterpiece of filmmaking, but because of how relevant it is to today. I would reccomend it to all who have an interest in history, and see how nothing changed, but indeed, became worse.
Wendy Davis of Texas became the real-life James Stewart of today by standing up and giving the state senate bore than it ever bargained for. Good on her. I'm sure she'll go far.
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