The horror

The one time in my life I felt physical, gut fear of something in the political world, was in 1994 when there was a chance that the Clinton takeover of the medical industry might pass and America would permanently lose its freedom under a bureaucratic regime, such as exists in the countries of Europe and in Canada. The Republicans in the U.S. Senate killed the Clinton bill. I remember Bob Dole as Senate Minority Leader knocking the nail in its coffin, and the inexpressible sense of relief I felt at the time.

All of which is a preface to this.

Fear—real fear—is not in the prospect of an Obama or Hillary presidency, but in this prospect, headlined in Pravda on the Hudson’s daily e-mail which I receive:

Senate Democrats Hope for a Majority Not Seen in 30 Years: 60 Seats

Some Democrats, hoping for a seismic shift in November, believe that a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate is within reach.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at March 07, 2008 12:21 PM | Send