“Suddenly — belatedly — all pretense is gone.”
It’s about f____ing time!
The thing is, the Dems were THERE just four years ago. We had them on the ropes. If the GOP congress had come out and tightened up all spending, secured the border, crushed the Dems in some key votes, gotten that nimrod DeWine to vote for ANWAR, and so on, the Dems would have been in deep, deep trouble.
Instead, from 2002 on, they held together and refused to throw ANYONE overboard, no matter how corrupt. They voted as an impregnable bloc, and obstructed, obstructed, obstructed.
Or, in historical terms, they were perfect examples of Roman general Fabius. Buy time. Regroup. Reorganize. Don't let the enemy have the knockout blow.