Gore was sore, but Coleman’s not. The GOP is pathetic.
Norm Coleman’s a sore loser. Why won’t the press say so?
Any day now, a three-judge panel in Minnesota will rule on Norm Coleman’s lawsuit to overturn the results of the state’s Senate election recount, which was completed in January. The complete hand recount concluded that the incumbent Republican lost to challenger Al Franken by 225 votes. Coleman demanded a full court case; today, almost nobody, including Coleman’s own attorney, thinks the Republican will prevail in the judges’ upcoming ruling, which follows a tedious seven-week trial.
End of story, and after a drawn-out, 18-week process, Franken will finally be seated in the U.S. Senate, right? Wrong. If Franken prevails as expected before the three-judge panel, Coleman will then have 10 days to file yet another appeal, this one to the Minnesota Supreme Court. If Coleman loses there as well, Republican leaders in Congress are encouraging him to not give up his legal challenge and take his case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which could create a scenario in which the Minnesota election might not get decided until the fall – almost a year after voters went to the polls – even if the Supreme Court refuses to hear the appeal.</em>
And there is this:
Filibusters skyrocket under Republican minority in 110th Congress
Yesterday, Sen. John Kyl (R-AZ) slammed the idea of passing health care reform and other Obama priorities through a simple majority of the Senate, a process called reconciliation. “Now, if they do that, that, in effect is the nuclear war,” Kyl said. The Republicans have become experts at using Senate filibusters – or often just the threat of filibusters – to block the Democratic agenda while in the minority. As this chart from Norm Ornstein shows, the use of filibusters have skyrocketed under Republicans:
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Ezra Klein writes, “If you want to understand why the earth is likely to heat and why comprehensive health reform is unlikely to pass and why the government is increasingly letting the Federal Reserve govern its response to the financial crisis, that graph basically tells the story.”</em>
So the GOP, who of course controlled government for the last decade or so, proves yet again that they have zero interest in, you know, actually governing. They are now a three issue party:
1: Tax cuts solve everything.
2: Kill brown people.
3: Obstruct the majority party from doing what the people elected them to do. And if our own supporters don’t agree, screw ‘em.
Now the democrats are craven, corrupt and beholden to special interests, but at least they attempt to have a plan. The GOP is only concerned with getting on TV to get re-elected. Pretty soon Sean Hannity will be broadcasting live from Bushvilles around the country, since that will be the only place “his people” will be found.
