I laughed so hard, I couldn’t stand it. That’s the exact term used when a smart Senator prepares himself for an extended filibuster – ‘Taking to the Diaper.’ Whah, whah, whah . . . that’s all we’ve heard, and now I know why. Diapers and babies go together - how appropriate for this group of screaming liberals. So please, let’s give them what they want and be done with this mess.

This could actually be the humor we need in our lives today.

If I have to hear Harry Reid give his sermon one more time on keeping the tradition and integrity of the Senate in tact, I think we’re all going to be sick.

If the Democrats are so bent on making sure that everything is in keeping with tradition, well then, let’s see if they can pull off a traditional filibuster that shows their true integrity?

Bring in the cots, let’s do it the “traditional” way. Wasn’t it Strom Thurmond who spent a weekend in a sauna before his big Civil Rights filibuster so he could still drink water and not have to go to the restroom? C’mon you big talkers, where’s your filibuster spirit.

Oh, you can throw it out there, but you’re all a bunch of hypocritical wusses when it comes down to it. You’re crying in your beer for fear the Republicans are going to take away your “one last weapon” – the filibuster.

Has anyone seen my violin?

Threaten, threaten, threaten . . . that’s all those left-minded liberals know how to do. They may be expelling a lot of hot air trying to show their tough side, but they’re really just stinking up the place. They’re so used to perfecting their television and radio sound bites; they couldn’t stand long enough to make a good argument if they tried. If it truly comes down to a filibuster, they wouldn’t last the one hundred hours Bill Frist offered them initially.

The ones that have been screaming the loudest wouldn’t stick around for a filibuster anyway. They’d be calling for a recess so they could go out on their yachts for a big weekend. You see, filibustering really isn’t their cup of tea, but oh, how they love to shake their fingers in the face of Republicans and wail and moan because those “Wascally Weepublicans” are trying to change history and take something very precious and dear to their hearts away from them.

For all of you who have jumped on the liberal bandwagon and have bought into their “plight of the poor party” that’s being taken advantage of, you need to read up on filibustering. It will be more than enlightening and those big crocodile tears won’t tug nearly so hard at your heart.

These senators might be forced back to the days of reading the telephone book or their favorite poetry, because they have no good reason to filibuster except that it’s “payback”(?) time.

Yes, when I heard Senators Reid and Schumer make such prattle that they (Republicans) did this to us back in such and such year, and we’re just getting back at them . . . oh, my goodness! If we’ve been held hostage by a bunch of adult children who are trying to get even, then heaven help us all.

First of all, who cares what squabbling went on ten years ago, and secondly, George Bush wasn’t President then, so it’s nothing but the brothers and sisters of our fine, upstanding legislative branch of government who want to get even with each other.

It has nothing to do with integrity. It has nothing to do with tradition. It’s a game and we’re the lowly pawns. We have no choice but to sit and watch you play this charade out till someone wins.

You’re doing it on our dollar and that’s enough to make any of us mad. We don’t have the privilege of voting-in an automatic pay raise every year for ourselves. Maybe if you foot the bill for this filibuster and all this other ungainly mess you’ve gotten us into, it would make a difference. With our money, you don’t seem to care.

It’s quite evident to us lowly folks back home that if you can make backroom deals over people’s lives and string them along for years, then you really have no integrity at all. It’s not about the character of Priscilla Owen, Janice Rogers Brown, or William Pryor – it’s about your character. You’ve been keeping the focus so intense on these people that we stopped looking at you. But once you brokered “your deal,” these people all of a sudden came up to the accepted standards? Do we really look that stupid?

The current modus operandi of filibustering has been this wink and a nod agreement that we’ll all come back together again on Monday morning and start where we left off. So, off to the resort, or you’re favorite cabin in the mountains, and leave the filibustering to no one. Along the way, you must have decided that it just didn’t fit your style to conduct a “traditional” filibuster anymore.

Well, by all means, let’s get back to tradition. As Harry Reid says, “For the sake of tradition, let’s do it right.”

What a joke! If the real meaning of “filibuster” is not upheld, how in the world are we going to deal with the term “extraordinary circumstances?” You people beat all I’ve ever seen. And to think, we pay good money for your minds.

So, ladies and gentlemen, if it’s tradition you’re trying so desperately to hold on to, and if it’s integrity you want to maintain, why don’t you show us some?

Debbie Daniel can be contacted at: dddtx@yahoo.com