I don't expect a lot from Washington politicians. I don't expect strong moral leadership. I don't expect great wisdom. I DO expect is for them to do what's in their own best interests. I also expect them to be somewhat short-sighted. I suspect some (enough) of fearful that if they use the 'nuclear option', they won't have the filibuster available to them once they become the minority party again not quite accepting the probablity that Democrats will be more than willing to 'nuke' the filibuster when their turn come.
If this is the thinking of the quivering GOP leadership in the Senate, they are bigger fools than I previously thought.
"I don't expect a lot from Washington politicians. I don't expect strong moral leadership. I don't expect great wisdom. I DO expect is for them to do what's in their own best interests. I also expect them to be somewhat short-sighted. I suspect some (enough) of fearful that if they use the 'nuclear option', they won't have the filibuster available to them once they become the minority party again not quite accepting the probablity that Democrats will be more than willing to 'nuke' the filibuster when their turn come."
I suspect that you are right in your expectations.
I'd just say that it is a little much to expect ME to keep sending them money, and going out there to organize, pollwatch or vote for them given that this is how they are expected to behave.
Because, see, I have to worry about what I think of myself.
And right now I think of myself as having been a dupe, a droolin' rube, part of the Republicans' "Black Bloc".
A chump who has been too brave and worked too hard for men who are too feckless to be entitled to get that sort of effort on my part in the future.
I think it is time to turn back to family and faith and no longer be so wounded at weak men in a fallen world that cannot get up.
I thought we could. I really believed it. The President was willing to give the finger to the whole world to wage war. But won't just make some folks MAD in America (that's all that was at stake) by saving a woman from dying of thirst.
If they don't pass the Nuclear Option, I am gone.