On 300 Spartans, 40 Republicans and Why Harry Reid Might Triumph Where Xerxes Failed

If the ancients and their accounts are to be believed then sometime some centuries ago 300 warriors of Sparta met and survived -for a time- against a force of one million soldiers pledged and obliged to the service of tyranny, conquest and despotism.  As could have been well predicted by the advantages of those rawest materials the foes were favored and every last Spartan died three days past the birth of their most epic battle.  The minions of Xerxes triumphed.  They triumphed emphatically.  They triumphed in a course that was within all reason and in keeping with all expectations that the superior force will succeed because the inferior force must fail.  But there are those things that exist beyond the reason of men.  There are likewise those things that surpass our expectations and -often times- arbitrary distinctions of inferior and superior.  The Persians of those days were to learn what the Pyrhhus and Cornwallis would discover on other days and in other battles destined to become the objects of history and its lessons.  This lesson:  there are many ways to triumph and any conflict’s final disposition and cost may not be found amongst aggregates of battles won and battles lost.

The Spartans knew, so it would seem, what Machiavelli had not yet come to tell his prince . . . that wars cannot be avoided, they can only be postponed to the advantage of the enemy.  And the advantage that Leonidas and his Spartans imbued their Greek Brothers with was the example of courage, fidelity and sacrifice for the liberty of their homeland.  The Greeks learned this example, loved this example and ultimately lived this example.  They overcame their differences.  They united.  They stood.  They defeated Xerxes.  They defeated the Persians.  They destroyed the menace that sought to become their overlords.

Some thousands of years later a group of outnumbered politicians mounted a similarly doomed campaign against a contingency of evil frothing and itching to thrust every American Citizen into a fealty to the imperial afederalist government by conscripting their bodies into a national service through a fascist health system.  Unlike the example of the brave and revered Spartans, however, the strength of these so-called brave souls failed and faultered at the particular moment when that strength was most necessary.  And what was the mechanism by which their courage abandoned them?  What was the Delila to their Sampson, the naked heal to their Achilles?  For those forty Republican members of the United States Senate the impetus to sell out the future and fortunes of every man, woman and child in this nation was nothing less severe than the threat of having to work part of a Christmas Day.  That was the crushing blow that stole their courage, robbed their fire and forced their hand into selling out our liberty and expectation of sovereignty over our own bodies.

So now it is clear that these are not our Spartans.  These are quislings.  These are the men and women that are not willing to wield all the political pankratian they can muster and fight defeat until the very last then it is excruciatingly clear that these are not our champions . . . it is preciously clear that these 40 -like those other 60 bastards working so tirelessly to make us their slaves- must be replaced if the Republic is to survive.