To the tune of "Here's to the State of Mississippi," with apologies to Phil Ochs. If anyone likes this & wants to put a clip on youtube, or use it in any other way, feel free.

It's a rather extraordinary speech. The full text is below the jump.

And Daley had not even bothered to read Durbin's Friday clarificiation--let alone his full speech, I am sure--before he spoke.

I am going to try to contact his press secretary & let her know just how much damage he's done.

"The question recurs, what will satisfy them? Simply this: We must not only let them alone, but we must somehow, convince them that we do let them alone. This, we know by experience, is no easy task. We have been so trying to convince them from the very beginning of our organization, but with no success. In all our platforms and speeches we have constantly protested our purpose to let them alone; but this has had no tendency to convince them. Alike unavailing to convince them, is the fact that they have never detected a man of us in any attempt to disturb them.