National Affairs: Joe & the Handmaidens

Now we pray that in all the deliberations here begun Thou wilt save us from pride of opinion, from intolerance and prejudice, and from lightly ascending any throne of judgment.

Last week the U.S. Senate met to consider censure action against Wisconsin's Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, and the ascension to judgment's throne was rocky indeed. Within minutes after the chaplain finished his opening prayer, Joe McCarthy was fighting the only way he knows how, with tooth, nail and knee, to make the debate one of the most acrimonious and personally bitter in Senate history....

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