Bullshit Artists II

Among the last to jump to either Senators' defense

In this case, however, I lay more of the blame for the bullshit outcome on the leadership's doorstep.

Reid and Schumer (and others?) would rather make a deal for a "gentleman's agreement" than fix the problems they both have supposedly acknowledged?  They're both political cowards who are more interested in maintaining the atmosphere at their elitist club than getting the American peoples' work done.

It wasn't as if prenegotiating away strengths was exclusively Obama's mistakes the past two years; Democratic Senate "leadership" took their chamber out of the game on more than a couple of occasions.  And they just guaranteed the American people that precious little will get done in 2011-2012.

As long as the leadership has their hands in the Cookie Jar of Power though, nothing will change.  Nothing about McConnell's or Graham's actions was "gentlemanly" the past couple of years.  And it would be different if the Democrats had actually painlessly filibustered the worst of the Bush Regime legislation.  But they didn't.  All too often, they helped pass regressive legislation instead of slowing it down.

Today's Democratic majority won't last much longer, I don't think.  Once they're back in the majority, they'll go right back to working with a group of extremist psychopaths because somebody has to be bipartisan in that swamp.  That's Udall's and Bennet's primary weakness - caring more for process and image than results.

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by: WeatherDem @ Sat Jan 29, 2011 at 08:15:44 AM UTC