More “change”
November 20th, 2008
Uhh, not. And this, in the place where it would do the most good:
The Senate Republican Conference meeting Tuesday, amid the ruins of the once-powerful majority, was business as usual.
- The leadership elections were all uncontested. The top three leaders—Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), Whip Jon Kyl (Ariz.), and Conference Chairman Lamar Alexander (Tenn.)—all stay in place. John Thune (S.D.) joins leadership as vice chairman of the conference, while John Cornyn ( Tex.) will head the National Republican Senatorial Committee and his predecessor, John Ensign ( Nev.) will head the policy committee.
- Any sentiment for a serious shakeup was buried amid a belief that upper chamber Republicans had suffered from “circumstances out of our control,” as Ensign put it. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) pushed some reform measures, such as term-limiting appropriators, but all such changes were shot down.
- The party postponed any vote on expelling convicted Sen. Ted Stevens ( Alaska) from the conference, but many senators stated there were certainly enough votes against him in the conference were a vote to be held. A larger majority of the conference, however, preferred not to vote if they didn’t have to—and Tuesday night’s results make it look like they don’t have to.
I am just about done with these morons. It looks more and more — with every passing blunder, every refusal to acknowledge reality, every yearning gesture toward a highly dubious and untenable status quo — as if they are absolutely, unremittingly hopeless.
Fuck the GOP. They’ve sold America out, and they’re too goddamned stupid to realize that they did so for nothing of any value at all.
(Via Bill)
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