Posted by
flagwaver on Saturday, February 17, 2007 9:52:16 PM
Oh boy, this is rich! This week has put a stupid look on the faces of the Democrats in Congress that is priceless! All of the stuff they pulled as the minority party is coming back to bite them right in the @ss! This is too funny for words!
These learned Democrats have just found out that they have no power, even after winning an electoral victory in November 2006. Their majority is too small in the Senate, and with the unpredictability of "independent Democrat" Joe Liebermann the Donkey Party is in a bad fix. Witness their failure to garner the votes needed to pass their non-binding resolution on Iraq in this rare saturday session. I guess Dingy Harry Reid thought he had the votes needed locked up before he called this session, but he just absorbed a humiliating loss on the slowest news day of the week!
The problem that the Donkeys are having now stem from the tricks they pulled as the minority party, mainly that of requiring a 60 vote super majority on many issues. By pulling that stunt they have painted themselves into the position of needing 60 votes to pass their stupid resolution; before they insisted on changing the rules they would have had the necessary votes in the Senate. Now, they are left hanging due to their own previous machinations.
And what makes it so funny is that the media can't help them now! The fight to require super majorities is too fresh in the public mind for the media to try to spin it as some GOP dirty trick. Harry Reid, Diane Fienstein, and Russ Feingold were too involved in making this the new standard to now back away from it without being seen as the hypocrites they truly are. Think about it: There is finally a problem the Donkeys have that the MSM can't bail them out of. Priceless!!
Now, I don't know if the GOP has the ...ummm...testicular fortitude to continue to stand together on the big issues. But if they do, they will soon realize that by losing in November in a strange way they gained power. Just by being obstructionists like the Donkeys were they can have a huge impact on the workings of the Congress. What a world! The Donkey's dirty tricks have totally backfired on them!
This is the definition of chickens coming home to roost!