So I kinda like John Conyers and stuff.

[WilliamPitt]

I get the passion and agree with it. But he wasn't going to impeach Bush right there on the secretary's desk.

As for the arrests, hey, you walk in and sit down, you're getting arrested. That's what you showed up for. Conyers has been a great ally to a lot of us. I seem to remember the '04 election being kinda sorta wee bit of a big deal, and he was as much with us and down as anyone else was.

So I'll stick with him. After all that (and no dog on Cindy), I'm hopeful he'll stick with us for the other picayune stuff like food, air, choice, rights, jobs, wages, you know, the stuff that doesn't count.

And on the arrests one other thought. You walk into my place, sit down and refuse to leave, and it's a place of seriouis work, it's pretty much out of my hands what happens to you. No kicking, I promise, but a little tickling for sure.

Oh, and as for that Rosa Parks thing? Flights of fancy are fun, and an ego boost I've indulged in from time to time, but I have a thought. It'd be a bet, and a serious one, if one party wasn't departed.

The question would be thus: give Rosa Parks the choice to spend a day either with any one of us, or with John Conyers, who would she pick?

Give Rosa Parks the chance to do serious work and serious activism and serious legislation with any one of us, or with John Conyers, who would she pick?

The bet: I'd bet my entire left nut, half of my right, and three toes from any foot that she'd pick Conyers for the first, and run through a wall to pick him for the second.

Us? We're OK, a little high-strung sometimes, but we're real good typists. Conyers? I don't have the time to describe all the ways he has seen the elephant.

So yeah, I like John Conyers and stuff. I have this wacky thing about trying to respect friends, and especially friends and allies, even if I disagree with them on one topic.

I'll take the Rep from Michigan, thanks.

If you want to try to talk me out of it, save your fingers. I've gotten the amazing chance to spend a good deal of time with him, and most of you are screen names to me like I'm a screen name to you. No offense, but I'll take the man who has put in the work for more time than me times two has been more than a zygote.

Yeah, I'll stick with John.

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