Brian Leiter on the filibuster

Brian Leiter has this to say, if you were unsure about what the "real" problem was:

But we should not forget the real issue, which is that the Republican Party of Bush, DeLay, Frist & co. is as close to unadulterated evil as anyone in the United States has seen in my lifetime: it is the party of theocracy (as a Republican Congressman put it), the party that revived the Nazi doctrine of “preventive” war, the party that supports torture, the party that undermines science, the party of radical regressive taxation, the party of naked and unapologetic bigotry against gays, the party that aims to destroy the main state protections (paltry as they are in America) for the indigent, the bankrupt, the ill, the elderly. It is the party of unbridled greed and (largely) unbridled cruelty. It is also, of course, the party of fiscal irresponsibility on a scale that would have made Rockefeller Republicans faint--though if that were all that could be said, it would merely be the party of foolishness.

Wow, it's no wonder Keith Burgess-Jackson, The Conservative Philosopher, has stopped reading Leiter's blog.

Wow.

P.S. "[T]he party in power in Washington, D.C. is a danger to humanity, at home and abroad, and everything must be done to stop it from making lifetime appointments of religious zealots and bigots like William Pryor, or clinical cases like Janice Brown, or conservative mediocrities like Priscella Owen (and see also here)."