re: #83 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

I doubt if they’re going to get the necessary 2/3 vote to take it down. It used to be the right was willing to make symbolic gestures like this just to make sure they didn’t have to do anything actually substantive. Now they dig their heels in on the smallest, most meaningless concession.

I don’t believe it will happen. They’ll make a big song and dance about taking it down, but when the public attention has waned, they’ll quietly drop all talk about it and it will remain. Or they’ll do as they did in 2000, finding some way to take it down from that pole and continue to let it fly somewhere else. There is, after all, a reason they put a 2/3 vote requirement on any vote to take it down and put a padlock on the pole.