Greg Sargent explains Mitch McConnell’s strategy so I don’t have to, again. I’ve grown weary of saying the same things over and over again, but somebody has to do it.
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
2014 midterms are looming large. We need to stop these bomb throwing anarchists. Its very scary when the opposition party is too crazy for productive negotiation.
McConnell:
When Democrats couldn’t convince Republicans that this bill was worth supporting as written, they plowed ahead on their own and passed it on a party-line vote.
I’ve noticed that this has become a favorite talking point on the right–Charles Krauthammer keeps repeating it, for instance–but that doesn’t mean it makes sense. The idea that ObamaCare is invalid because the Republicans didn’t vote for it is just grotesquely narcissistic. Even if they were acting in good faith, it passed the Senate on a majority vote, and that’s all our system requires.
That’s why we have elections, you assholes.
supermajority vote.
I’m liking the sound of Sen. Allison Grimes more and more. And scuttlebutt is that Wyden will take the chair of the Senate Finance Committee.
I am not clear what that means for health care, given Wyden’s previous proposals. But for a lot of other things, it makes it interesting, just so long as Democrats keep the Senate.
I hope there’s a special place in hell reserved for excrement like Mitch McConnell.