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Tyrone Slothrop
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.
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The GOP's spending behavior in the past few years was utterly disgusting.
Is the Dems behavior not treated the same, because it's a given their spending behavior is utterly disgusting?
It was the GOP that brought "porkbuster" legislation to light. It was primarily Democrat Senators - although that fuck from Alaska deserves specific disdain as well - that tried to kill it.
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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.
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The Dem House proposed a serious bill. Within hours, the Dem Senate tried to eviscerate it.
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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.
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Glenn - and others, including TPM Muckraker I might add - were taking Reid, et al to the woodshed for embarrassing their party.
Somehow, you missed this.
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(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.)
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Gee, how dare I impute the
leader's views to the rest of the party. Maybe we have different understandings of what "leader" means?
