# I Pit the ID-demanding GOP vote-suppressors (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 12, 2012, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-id-demanding-gop-vote-suppressors-part-1/624943 "2012-06-12T19:15:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4121
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2014, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-id-demanding-gop-vote-suppressors-part-1/624943/4121 "2014-05-12T19:53:35Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Day-um, Counselor, how many times we been over this? I described the events as being “sordid”, you replied that even though that word had connotations of disapproval, it wasn’t _sufficient_ disapproval, so that was pretty much the same thing as approval. Which is horseshit. > > C’mon, Rick! Play hard, play fair. You’ll still lose, because you are wrong, but you’ll be the better man for it. And when you boil it down, that’s… > > _WINNING!!_ You described the event as ‘sordid,’ yes: you said the Republicans “dared” the Democrats to commit a sordid and partisan act. here’s your post: > [@Senator Kirk and the Constitutionality of Expedient Law Switching](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senator-kirk-and-the-constitutionality-of-expedient-law-switching/512967/12): > > I’m a big fan of moral parity, the balancing of the _ying-yang_, karma. When the Pubbies have power (as recently demonstrated), they behave with sublime indifference to any such civic considerations, they grasp for power by means legitimate, illegitimate, and downright illegal. > > Balance. If the Dems run totally roughshod over the Pubbies, ride 'em and spank 'em for a couple of years, three maybe, then the balance may be restored. > > The Pubbies bluffed, and got called. They refused any accomodation to the facts, and dared the Dems to commit a sordid and partisan act. The Dems called, they rake in the pot and now the Pubbies play the only card they got: they blubber the tears crockidilian of the dreadful display of corruption and immorality, the little drops splashing on their freshly-starched communion dress. > > C’mon. Who’s kidding who, here? > > The point of such legal formalities is to protect the will of the people, no? Does anyone seriously doubt that the will of the people of Massachussets is to have a Dem take Kennedy’s seat? > > If an action be perfectly legal and thwarts the will of the people, it is not legitimate. By the same token, if an action manifests that will, it carries a legitimacy. The Pubbies could have avoided this outcome by shrugging and accepting the inevitable, maybe pick up a small bargaining chip, maybe win Miss Congeniality, something like that. > > But they made a fight out of it hoping for just this result, perhaps in their mind this balances out trying to corrupt the Justice Dept, I dunno. But now they get to piss and moan, bitch and perform about this travesty yadda-blah, yadda-blah… > > _Feh_! as they say in Lubbock. This is not strong condemnation. It’s not weak condemnation. It’s approval. > [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Once again, **Bricker,** your intellectual dishonesty disgraces the legal profession. Read his post. Who is being honest here? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-id-demanding-gop-vote-suppressors-part-1/624943)._