News Story:
"Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) called Democrats' push to force through an arms control treaty and an omnibus spending bill right before Christmas "sacrilegious," and warned he'd draw the process out to wage his objections."
The Sanctimonious Senator from South Carolina continued to seethe from his slapdash soapbox:
"You can't jam a major arms control treaty right before Christmas," he told POLITICO. "What's going on here is just wrong. This is the most sacred holiday for Christians. They did the same thing last year - they kept everybody here until (Christmas Eve) to force something down everybody's throat. I think Americans are sick of this."
Of course, DeMint's makeshift pulpiteering was constructed for the benefit of the beatific MSM, but someone just had to spoil his high holy harangue. DeMint's self-serving sermon sent Matt Yglesias aflutter on Twitter:
"I'm Jewish and even I know Easter, not Christmas, is the most sacred holiday for Christians." How on earth do you get to be an adult church-goer and not understand this?"
The Puritans actually banned Christmas for a decade or two. They were not fans of pagan spirits in red pulled by horned creatures and landing on their roofs. Had Santa slid down a Puritan chimney he would have been tied to lovely cut pine tree, displayed in the town commons, and promptly set on fire.
So if it ain’t a bow to the "Birthday Boy" and it's not to show Santa who's been naughty and nice, then why has Jim DeMint lobbied for his heathen holiday?
Allow me to explain:
Let’s overlook the absurdity of this crème piece de merde DeMint bitching about having to actually perform the work he’s already over-paid to do; especially after his own foot-dragging on the job caused the legislative back-up in the first place. Let's also suspend disbelief and assume the Senator's biblical objections have nothing whatsoever to do with the teachings found in the political Far Right's "Good Book" (although I believe the basis of DeMint's argument can be found in Lobotomy 1:0:0.
Instead, let’s examine this “sacrilege” as seen from a true Son of the Confederacy. Yes, there is an historical disposition within DeMint's dementia.
The first Congress assembled under our new Constitution had no problem scheduling a working session on that Christmas day in 1778, just 2 weeks after a knock-down, drag-out ratification process.
So much for DeMentian precedent to the contrary.
So what’s Jim Boy's real issue here?
Every Southern shit-kicker knows that the most sacred day of the year to a South Carolina Xtreme Republican Xtian is the day their state first brought forth the resolution to secede from the Union.
That date was December 25th, 1861.
From Harper’s Weekly, January 5, 1861:
“This body continues to sit, having refused to adjourn over the holidays. Addresses to the Southern States and to the world have been issued and published; their length precludes their publication here. Three Commissioners- Messrs. Adams, Orr, and Barnwell- have been appointed to treat with the United States Government. Nothing has been done with regard to the commercial relations of the new nation: the United States Collector continues to issue clearances and to collect duties. On Christmas Day Mr. Manigault's resolution, instructing the Governor to make forthwith all preparations which may be needed to assert by force the right and jurisdiction of South Carolina in its territory, was lost.
On the 26th, a resolution was passed declaring citizens of South Carolina all citizens of the United States within her limits on the 20th inst., the date of her secession. Another provides for a Convention of slaveholding States at Montgomery, Alabama, for the purpose of forming a Southern Confederacy, under the Constitution of the United States. The Convention, in secret session, adopted an ordinance continuing the present Federal revenue officers in their places, and also continuing the United States revenue and navigation laws in force, subject to certain regulations.”
So December 25th was a high holy eve to South Carolina’s Secessionists and December 26th was their equivalent to Christmas Day - the day the "Baby Treason" was hatched. Now, the Sanctimonious Senator from South Carolina has decided to deify the once half-governor of South Carolina, St. Francis of Pickens – and it’s in His name that he wants the day off.
Perhaps Mr. DeMint can get the resolution to deify Pickens in place this week and get it passed by before Christmas.
Predictably, in the name of bipartisanship, Mr. Obama will sign it.
Ever the image of practicality, our self-exalted Jim the First (not to be confused with the Right William of Frist) simply wants to clear away all of that "nation's business" clutter. After all, Senators and Congresscritters have big plans for the holidays. It's time for John Boehner's restorative rendezvous with the Bimini sun.
And jeez, come on! It's f'ing Christmas!
Let the blessed gods of the Senate screw us, everyone.
After all, between their day job and those unseen deals after dark, Republican Senators are among the few Americans who make enough money to lavish Christmas gifts on their own families.
They're just too mean-spirited to actually part with it.