Everybody's upset with Congress including the Democrats themselves. I think they're doing a fine job, especially since they've taken no action on their agenda from Iraq, to energy legislation, spending priorities, and tax policy. In "The Delta House Congress," the Wall Street Journal editorializes that the Democrats are smitten with token votes they know will fail to demonstrate "action" to the Nutroots:
As they careen toward the end of their first year in charge, Congressional leaders seem capable of nothing but futile gestures. Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid failed once again to get enough votes for an energy bill, having refused to remove a $21.8 billion tax increase on energy that President Bush has promised to veto in any case. Mr. Reid was vowing to try again as we went to press.Could this guy do any worse than Harry Reid?
Meanwhile, in Nancy Pelosi's House of self-inflicted pain, the Blutarsky strategy played out yesterday in one more hopeless attempt to pass a tax increase to "pay for" Alternative Minimum Tax relief. The Senate has already voted 88-5 against any such tax hike, so this House bill is dead before arrival. But Ms. Pelosi's troops are just the guys to do it anyway.
I think not!
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I think the less legislation produced at ANY governmental level be Congress down to the local supervisor is a great thing. All hail gridlock!
Remember when the GOP held the reins and wailed about Democratic "obstructionism"? Now that the roles are reversed, they've raised the tactic to an art form. Literally, the GOP blocked a bill THAT THEY THEMSELVES WERE PROPOSING, before realizing that it was their OWN legislation and belatedly approving it:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/12/washington/12cong.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
(paragraph #6)
Now, how anybody wish-dreams that this "prevent defense" strategy will somehow rebound to the GOP's electoral benefit in 2008, only the good Lord and Mitch McConnell can say.
Senator Blutarski may have been a Democrat (for starters, he lusted after girls). But it's the Republicans who've decided that the situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture.
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