They have announced that all business in the Senate will come to a screeching halt, until they take up the tax issue first. This is the sort of mettle I hope becomes an everyday thing in the Senate, where Republicans do not have a majority, and the Dems margin of power is only a couple of votes. My hope is that this is the beginning of a new attitude by Republicans: business as usual is no longer acceptable. The time for substantial, fundamental change in the way the Federal Government operates and what it is, is now.
Truthfully, I was reasonably sure that Senate Republicans would simply lie down and be Obama’s doormat during the lame duck session, much as they were before the election. All of the liberal Shangri La’s would simply come to pass, and the GOP would be too cowardly to stop any of it.
I am happy to note that GOP mettle in the Senate, so far, has held. Reid has taken a number of test votes, and all have fallen short of the filibuster-proof-majority needed. Thus far, nothing has reached Obama’s desk. One hopes that the same fate awaits the partial amnesty act that has just passed the House.
And, yes, I do favor elimination of the ‘Lame Duck’ sessions of the House and Senate. They have never accomplished anything important in my lifetime, and, moreover, are simply an open invitation to making mischief.
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