I hope you enjoy this as much as I did:
When Democrats took control of Congress in January, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) pledged to jointly push an ambitious agenda to counter 12 years of Republican control.
Now, as Congress struggles to adjourn for Christmas, relations between House Democrats and their colleagues in the Senate have devolved into finger-pointing.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.) accuses Senate Democratic leaders of developing “Stockholm syndrome,” showing sympathy to their Republican captors by caving in on legislation to provide middle-class tax cuts paid for with tax increases on the super-rich, tying war funding to troop withdrawal timelines, and mandating renewable energy quotas. If Republicans want to filibuster a bill, Rangel said, Reid should keep the bill on the Senate floor and force the Republicans to talk it to death.
Reid, in turn, has taken to the Senate floor to criticize what he called the speaker’s “iron hand” style of governance.
In the past few weeks, the House has thrown wave after wave of legislation at the Senate ” on energy, Iraq war policy, the housing and mortgage crisis, and middle-income tax cuts offset largely by tax increases on the wealthy.
Most of it has died quietly, a predetermined fate that both sides could foresee before the first vote was cast. Yet they went ahead anyway. Just last night, the House, for a second time, passed legislation to stave off the growth of the alternative minimum tax, to be paid for by a measure to stop hedge fund managers from deferring compensation in offshore tax havens. Like the previous House version, it has virtually no chance of passing in the Senate.
Officially, House Democrats blame Senate Republicans, who have used parliamentary tactics to block even uncontroversial measures. But they are increasingly expressing public frustration with Reid and Senate Democrats for not putting up a better fight.
House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) called it a “hold and fold” strategy: Senate Republicans put a “hold” on Democratic bills, and Senate Democratic leaders promptly fold their tents.
Reid and Pelosi were a very bad choice. The Democrats felt it more important to hire a woman, than a competant leader. There are many women that can lead the Congress, but Pelosi is not one of them. Reid is just an idiot. The Democrats keep losing because they are putting up crap legislation.
As Ed Morrissey said:
The Democrats swore that they would make Congress ascendant over the White House and render Bush irrelevant. Instead, Bush has become Mr. Relevant, and it’s almost entirely due to the political malpractice of Pelosi and Reid. Perhaps Bush should send them some holiday fruitcake as well.
H/T to Memeorandum
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WTF??? The Democraps have no one to blame but themselves. They wrote the book on obstructionism, and now they are getting their own medicine. What a bunch of spoiled crybabies.
No kidding! So now that’s the Republican’s fault too? The Democrites got what they wanted, they made a lot of promises, they got Congress, and now they have degenerated into their typical self-serving, hypocritical, lying, pos selves…but let’s blame it on Republicans…
“Well, it not our fault we reneged on every promise we made. It’s Bush’s fault, yeah that it, it Bush’s fault!!”
Whine, snivel.
At the rate they’re going, they’ll destroy themselves by Nov. 08.
If i dont miss my guess wasnt it CHUCKY RANGLE who refired to tax cuts as RACSIS whay a stupid mindless jackass:-?