“Every pundit who said the GOP was ready to prove it can be a governing party: go sit in the corner for a while.”
It’s just one of those things. Does the day end in -y? Then this is what a Republican majority looks like:
It’s quite a congressional majority, isn’t it? Nearly a month into the new Congress, Republicans have prioritized an oil-pipeline bill they know can’t pass, an immigration package they know can’t pass, changes to Wall Street safeguards they know can’t pass, anti-abortion legislation they know can’t pass, and anti-healthcare measures they know can’t pass.
It’s part of a larger squeaky-wheel mentality: Make enough noise, then point to the noise you’ve made as evidence that there is noise.
Which seems almost silly, except as we saw once again in November, it works.
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Benen, Steve. “They’re not just ‘getting it out of the way'”. msnbc. 3 February 2015.
