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Pure amateur hour from the Republican “leadership.”
“Not with a bang but a whimper.”
Disgusting.
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Actually, what Boner is scared of is THIS happening to the GOP around the 1:42 mark.
Josh, could you please post the ‘Republican females’ bit from Raw Story where Gomer (AKA Captain Asparagus) is whining that he never said what he said? It’s classic Teabaggery.
He promised to “take this fight to the president on the strongest possible ground – with new majorities that the American people elected.”
Time’s ticking out pretty quickly on those “new majorities”.
McConnell’s got big problems in holding together a Senate majority that includes FIFTEEN caucus member who face re-election scenarios in 2016 that range from the not-easy to the close-to-impossible. It’s easily possible that a third or more of them will lose, and every step taken towards pandering to the base is a step also towards ensuring that. The SAFEST route for those most vulnerable to being defeated in 2016 are to appear busy with a lot of symbolic bills and pyrrhic victories, and even those are going to prove difficult.
The same scenario applies to some extent in the House, where well over 60 of Boehner’s majority represent districts that support policy sets on difficult issues that on the whole are more liberal progressive than their Congressional reps.
And then there’s the combined problem of the way the Republicans run the chamber’s business dockets on the one hand, with facing a Democratic president released of the need to run for re-election while armed with a veto and an array of clearly identified legislation and policy goals to protect.
This current session isn’t going anywhere until the fall, mostly having to retrench members’ perceived need to vote for symbolic bills. Then from mid-September thru to maybe May at the latest, the big focus is going to be on the budget and how the government keeps open while Congress shuts down for the long election push - and much of THAT time will be taken up with the public focus on the Clown Cavalcade and candidates need to force attention on themselves.
The last several Congresses have been to getting things done like the last 15 years in the global climate have been to historically warming temperatures. This one could easily end up being setting an even higher bar for Doing Nothingness.
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