Democrats Become Target of Occupy Protests

[Kelvin Mace]

107. Gosh, as I recall at the time

quite a few bloggers such as Kos, AmericaBlog, Pam Spaulding, et al said that thinking the GOP would keep their promises was idiotic, and that the bipartisan fetish Obama insisted on was foolish in the extreme.

Hell, I called it when the Dems staring making "nice, nice" after winning back the congress in 2006:

http://www.thoughtcrimes.org/s9/index.php?/archives/1483-Dems-still-freaking-clueless-about-their-opponents.html

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After chafing for years under what they saw as flagrant Republican abuse of Congressional power and procedures, the incoming majority has promised to restore House and Senate practices to those more closely resembling the textbook version of how a bill becomes law: daylight debate, serious amendments and minority party participation.

Beyond the parliamentary issues, Democrats assuming control on Jan. 4 said they also wanted to revive collegiality and civility in an institution that has been poisoned by partisanship in recent years. In a gesture duly noted by Republicans, the incoming speaker of the House, Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, offered Speaker J. Dennis Hastert of Illinois, who is remaining in Congress, the use of prime office space in the Capitol out of respect for his position.

Then you people are idiots.

The GOP MUST be punished for its six years of abuse of the system. I am all for treating people fairly and not acting like assholes the way Hasert, Delay, Frist and Co. did, but only AFTER these smegma-brained pricks get a taste of their own medicine AND the Dems UNDO all the damage wrought by Bush and his Constitution-destroying reign.

For the next six months, and conditioned on their good behavior, the GOP reps should be told to shut up and stay out of the way while the adults clean up the mess they have made of the country. If they so much as open their mouth once to bitch, then they should be told they just added another month to their punishment. Since they have acted like power-mad brats, then they should be treated like power-mad brats.

Later in the story we see that the GOP has NO intention of acting in anything vaguely resembling a civil manner:

“There are going to be days when we will offer alternatives in ways that are going to be very appealing to Democrats in districts the president carried just two years ago,” said Representative Roy Blunt of Missouri, who will be the second-ranking House Republican in the 110th Congress.

Republicans see the ability to force tough votes — which they avoided in the majority by stifling Democratic alternatives — as having two potential benefits: It can put vulnerable Democrats on record with positions that might not be popular at home, or it can fracture the untested Democratic majority. Mr. Blunt noted that even senior Democrats who served in Congress when Democrats held control had no experience dealing with a relatively thin, 16-seat majority that will not allow many lawmakers to avoid tough votes.

Once agin, the Dems are showing up to the proverbial gun fight with nothing more than a finger to wag.

Let me paraphrase Kyle Reese and spell it out for you fools:

The taste of Republican butt does not improve with age.

The NeoCons can't be bargained with. They can't be reasoned with. They do not feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And they absolutely will not stop, EVER, until you are dead.

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The filibuster should be done away with for the simple reason that one side uses it all the time, and the other side is afraid to use it at all.