WHY THE REPUBLICANS MIGHT AS WELL STILL BE RUNNING CONGRESS

[defrog]

This has been sitting in my inbox for a few days now and it’s going to drive me batshit until I post it, so –

The NYT did a nice piece explaining why the Democrats aren’t accomplishing anything in the Senate – basically, it’s because the GOP knows how to filibuster. They’ve been on a filibustering blitz, actually, blocking pretty much anything the Democrats put on the table on general principle.

There are two reasons to even bother bringing this up:

1. Senate Republicans are so bent on blocking Democrat legislation that they actually once blocked a bill on the alternative minimum tax, even though it was the exact version of the bill the GOP wanted in the first place, forcing them to backtrack and approve it.

2. The GOP tried to outlaw filibustering THREE WHOLE YEARS AGO! Remember Bill Frist jabbering about deploying the “nuclear option” because the Democrats were blocking judicial nominees just to be snotty and divisive? If they’d succeeded, they wouldn’t be able to do what they’re doing now.

I dare someone on the Sunday talk shows ask Mitch McConnell about this. I double-dog dare them.

Oh, who am I kidding? We’ll have to wait for the Hollywood writers strike to end so Jon Stewart can do the job, and do it right.

So anyway, if it seems like the GOP is still running this dog-and-pony show, that’s why. Oh, right, and because the Democrats are spineless hippies.

Under obstruction,

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