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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Enter the "pure" party, again, stage left:
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You either have a very short memory or an awful lot of gall to complain that the Senate leadership wasn't prepared to strengthen earmark rules as much as the House was, given the crap that went on the last several years.
And then in the same breath, you tweak the Senate leadership for bringing to a vote a motion that it didn't have the votes for -- in other words, for failing to avoid a vote with majority support.
Which is to say, whatever support you and Glenn Reynolds have for the spirit of reform lasts exactly as long as you can beat up Democrats with it.
(And since we're talking about moral purity, I don't see a suggestion here that most Democrats were on the anti-reform side of things here. You're just imputing the leaders' views to the rest of the party.)
