Rush: "I don't know what to say. This is utter incompetence."
No, it's not. As I told you earlier, Huck, you should take up "reading for comprehension". But you're not really here for that, are you, Huck? I know the smell of your posts, having had vast experience with the type over the years here at Free Republic.
kgdallen - the snippet I posted is about a short story written by Tolkien called The Homecoming of Beorthnoth, Beorthelm's Son. Huck, the semiliterate dissembler, appears to believe that Tolkien, a reknowned historical linguist and scholar, was "just about hobbits". Huck is, of course, wrong - on this as well as many other things.
*chuckle* Tolkien actually caught some crap from his fellow-scholars when his Lord Of The Rings became an unintended best-seller.
Huck wants us to emulate Beorthnoth and invite the Democommies across the causeway "for a fair fight". I prefer to keep the poisonous snakes at arm's length, myself. ;-)
Keep winking while we keep losing.
And this is where you are totally wrong. Letting them across the causeway is what the GOP has been doing and continues to do. Remember when we "shared" the majority? That was the GOP letting them across. This ongoing debate that never ends? Letting them across. Granted, it's probably out of fear, not hubris, but the end result is the same. You, and the GOP Senate, are too feckless to do anything. Maybe they should take up reading obscure fantasy poems. You don't keep a poisonous snake at arms length. You kill it.
Rush: "I don't know what to say. This is utter incompetence."