Saturday, February 17, 2007
How Is This Shit Even Possible?
http://www2.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifWhile it's a good indication that Democrats have not lost their timidity and Republicans have not lost their temerity that we're even still in Iraq, and the altnernative to Bush's policy is a series of toothless and diluted resolutions, no one seems to notice that Republicans still control the Senate.
After threatening a procedural shutdown if Democrats filibustered another judicial nominee (which I guess is a less august method of opposition than simply not vetting them at all, as the GOP-controlled Senate did with our previous president's choices), the Republicans have used that same filibuster they claimed to revile...and now they're exercising what amounts to a passive version. They torpedoed the minimum wage bill, and forestalled indefinitely any debate on the homeopathic-strength anti-war resolution.
Has the media gone completely insane? No one, to my knowledge, has so much as noted in passing the breathtaking hypocrisy at work, or the incredible stranglehold that the GOP has placed around Harry Reid. Apparently zealous leader-worship is mandatory for the executive when that executive is a Republican and forbidden in all other cases.
The Times' front-page article takes it as an article of faith that, until the expiration of eternity, Democrats will need sixty votes to do anything. And Jim Bunning of Kentucky couches his intransigence in the name of comity. If they'd only pushed a little harder to get what they wanted as the minority, the Democrats might be governing today.
After threatening a procedural shutdown if Democrats filibustered another judicial nominee (which I guess is a less august method of opposition than simply not vetting them at all, as the GOP-controlled Senate did with our previous president's choices), the Republicans have used that same filibuster they claimed to revile...and now they're exercising what amounts to a passive version. They torpedoed the minimum wage bill, and forestalled indefinitely any debate on the homeopathic-strength anti-war resolution.
Has the media gone completely insane? No one, to my knowledge, has so much as noted in passing the breathtaking hypocrisy at work, or the incredible stranglehold that the GOP has placed around Harry Reid. Apparently zealous leader-worship is mandatory for the executive when that executive is a Republican and forbidden in all other cases.
The Times' front-page article takes it as an article of faith that, until the expiration of eternity, Democrats will need sixty votes to do anything. And Jim Bunning of Kentucky couches his intransigence in the name of comity. If they'd only pushed a little harder to get what they wanted as the minority, the Democrats might be governing today.
