I share her pain
Apr. 3rd, 2006 04:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ebonlockChristy at Firedoglake links to this Joe Klein piece in Time that almost makes me want to weep:
A series of terrible leadership moves have ensued. There was Frist’s effort to deploy the "nuclear option" — that is, to perform radical surgery on the Senate’s filibuster rules in order to allow votes on President Bush’s more extreme judicial appointments. But the nuclear option was thwarted when 14 Senate moderates cut a deal to keep the rules and allow votes on some of the appointees. "We saved him on that," said a G.O.P. staff member involved in the negotiations. "Frist never had the votes he needed for the nuclear option."
She then comments:
Great. For all of you who fell for the "vote for cloture or we’ll use the nuclear option in the Senate" bluff, I hate you. Just FYI.
Hate's a harsh word, but yeah, that about sums it up. Those cobags bluffed us with a pair of 3's and they're chorteling over it. It'd be nice if just once in a while the Dems would actually call their bluff. We could've won that fight, instead we get a Supreme Court with two additional Bush sycophants on board for life. Spectacular.
A series of terrible leadership moves have ensued. There was Frist’s effort to deploy the "nuclear option" — that is, to perform radical surgery on the Senate’s filibuster rules in order to allow votes on President Bush’s more extreme judicial appointments. But the nuclear option was thwarted when 14 Senate moderates cut a deal to keep the rules and allow votes on some of the appointees. "We saved him on that," said a G.O.P. staff member involved in the negotiations. "Frist never had the votes he needed for the nuclear option."
She then comments:
Great. For all of you who fell for the "vote for cloture or we’ll use the nuclear option in the Senate" bluff, I hate you. Just FYI.
Hate's a harsh word, but yeah, that about sums it up. Those cobags bluffed us with a pair of 3's and they're chorteling over it. It'd be nice if just once in a while the Dems would actually call their bluff. We could've won that fight, instead we get a Supreme Court with two additional Bush sycophants on board for life. Spectacular.
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Date: 2006-04-03 11:42 pm (UTC)Alas, that would require a party with a spine.
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Date: 2006-04-04 01:39 am (UTC)The Klingon has Bu$h's face and you get to keep kicking him in the head and saying "I... have had... enough... of you!" until he falls into the burning lava.
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Date: 2006-04-04 02:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-04 02:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-04 03:49 pm (UTC)heh...
Date: 2006-04-04 10:02 am (UTC)http://syndicated.livejournal.com/thisisnotover/242198.html