I am livid. I have never been a third party guy, but I'm changing my view.
Watching the Dems during Bush's term taught me a lot about how they can use procedural rules to gum up the works when the want to; when they wanted to they were able to bring Bush's agenda to a complete stop even while they were in the minority.
So what did our guys do? All they had to do between the election and Christmas was slow-walk everything until the time ran out. They didn't. They talked about it but they didn't do it.
Now you have weak-links talking about "considering" what to do about Obama-care, and wondering aloud how they are going to work with the president. I get a queasy feeling about these guys, like we're about to be had again.
I don't think they realize how many people are about ready to wash their hands of the GOP. If they mess things up in January this party could split. The president is using the institutions of power to cloak a revolution. If the opposition doesn't use those same institutions to foil that revolution, bad things are coming.
I feel EXACTLY the same way. I remember how Daschle, or virtually any other dem Senator brought the dammed Senate to a near standstill when Bush was president. During the past couple of years, I’ve been wondering why in the hell haven’t WE been doing this?