We don't have enough lipstick for this pig. [View all]

[Atticus]

I've read numerous efforts here to justify or excuse the Senate's failure to reform the filibuster in any meaningful way. Those of us who feel outraged and betrayed are being told, essentially, that we just "don't understand" how politics works; that Harry Reid just had no choice; that only those who just fell off the turnip truck thought there was a chance that we'd restore the talking filibuster.

We were told, in no uncertain tems, that reform would happen. "Damn betcha"---Harry Reid.
It not only didn't happen: he didn't try to make it happen. While he was assuring us in folksy terms (see just above) that the Merkley reforms would be implemented, he did not want the Merkley reforms. Or so he now says.

When the other side does that---and it's getting difficult to tell just who is on the "other side", lately---we call them lying sons of bitches. (Obvious next line self-censored) McConnell, by the way, is already raising funds claiming to have "defeated the liberals" on the filibuster.

I'm sorry, but corporate blue dog Democrats aren't Democrats, in my view. If saying that means I'm on the wrong forum, the Admins can let me know.