Waste Your Time, Monkey Boys
by Lee
On Seinfeld they spoke of the brilliance of a show about nothing. Here in America, my idea of government is one which does nothing.
This year Senate Republicans are threatening filibusters to block more legislation than ever before, a pattern that’s rooted in — and could increase — the pettiness and dysfunction in Congress.
The trend has been evolving for 30 years. The reasons behind it are too complex to pin on one party. But it has been especially pronounced since the Democrats’ razor-thin win in last year’s election, giving them effectively a 51-49 Senate majority, and the Republicans’ exile to the minority.
Ah, government which does nothing. Exactly what this country needs.
Update: Surfpunk reminds me of the “nuclear option” from a few years back. Here’s me in 2005.
The Democrats are being obstructionist dickheads right now, and Bush’s nominees are being used for nothing but political posturing to score points with the Democrat electoral base. It’s an unconscionable attack on judges with expressed religious and conservative beliefs. There’s no excusing what the Democrats are doing. But eliminating the power of the filibuster is more akin to the Vietnam-era statement that “we had to destroy the village in order to save it.” One day the GOP is going to be the minority party in Congress. (I think it’s going to happen sooner than anyone thinks. My prediction: look for the Democrats to pick up the Senate in 2006.) And when the find themselves in the minority, they’re sure as hell going to wish they had that filibuster.
Just think of all the wonderful things we’d be enjoying now if the GOP had no option to filibuster. It almost gets boring being right so often.
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Ah, government which does nothing. Exactly what this country needs.
I’m sure that I have a bunch of flames coming my way for saying this, but that is *exactly* the reason that I voted for John Kerry. He was worthless and would have done absolutely nothing in his 4 years before getting booted out in ‘08. However, it was my opinion at the time (and history has been favorable to my view) that having a President whose only act was to stop the bleeding would have been favorable to keeping a President who has created new wounds. I think, no matter what you think about John Kerry’s politics, his ineptitude at getting anything done would have been a better option, at least to me, than allowing Bush to consider spending his “Political Capital”. Can people honestly still say that Kerry would have been worse, in light of what we’ve witnessed in the last 3 years, no matter how much of a douchebag he is?
I should add, as a newbie to these forums, that I voted for Bush in 2000. In hindsight, Kerry was 1/10th of the man that Al Gore was, and I desperately feared the idea of Al Gore as President. So for me to suggest what I did in the previous post is no small indictment for Bush.
Ah, gridlock. I missed you.
but didja notice something, Lee? In a grapic on Republican filibusters, they note that the longest and most notorious was on the Civil Rights Act. Of course, they fail to mention that it was the fucking Democrats who did that one.
Even when they have something to slam the GOP on, they can’t resist being a liberal media.
Part of the deal here is the Dems have 12 years of stupid liberal legislation constipation.
The nuclear option was only for nominees, not legislation. I don’t recall any up or down votes on nominees being filibustered during this congress. Second of all, the reason the numbers are so high this term is because the Democrats are playing political games and baiting filibusters. The Republicans should just let them get on the record with their votes. Let Bush take care of the stupid legislation with his veto pen for once.
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Just think of what we’d have, though, had the Republicans been successful in implementing that pesky little two-edged sword, the “nuclear” option.