"Mr Speaker, Democracy has now been suspended."

[rick_day]

A new twist in the mutual bony finger

Comments

[abomvubuso]

Could you use lj-cut please?

[rick_day]

which part do you want cut? I didn't see it as that long...but that's just me.

never mind, I'll figure it out...

[fizzyland]

I'm sure conservatives can explain why a rule in existence for hundreds of years urgently needed to be changed right now.

[kylinrouge]

It's not a table so much as one of those carnival games where you throw a ball and if you hit the target, someone sitting gets dunked in the water.

Eric Cantor is leaving the seat the open for the Democrats. How nice of him!

[meus_ovatio]

It's funny watching people who claim to be savvy in business matters pretend they're idiots and don't know how poison-pill tactics work in negotiations. It's almost as if they're patently dishonest down to their very bones!

[oportet]

So now it's the right who disagrees with the founders, and the left asserting that 200+ year old words should still apply......that's my government!

[sandwichwarrior]

Sittin' on the dock of the bay, wasting time...

I prefer to swim out past the breakers...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW6E_TNgCsY

[rick_day]

Well..at least it was not Nickelback.

[kylinrouge]

The rule can be repealed with a simple majority vote that can be started by anyone, I believe.

The problem is that requires Republicans to defect, which would effectively end their careers. Once again, politics gets in the way of doing the right thing.

But hey, given how all these polls are coming out, if this trend continues then being an Independent might give them a better shot than being a Republican.

[rick_day]

I can just see their political slogan: WE DIDN'T FUCK SHIT UP.

[yes_justice]

We didn't break the law!

[brother_dour]

Wouldn't be the first time a political party in the U.S. died. Where are all the Bull Mooses?