I am pleased to announce that we discovered today that the American people have finally gotten an opposition party to stand up to the disastrous policies of George W. Bush.
Unfortunately, the opposition party we’ve been waiting for turn out to be Bush’s own Republican Party, who opposed the dumb Paulson bailout by 133 to 65. Meantime the Democrats — the party that followed our Worst President Ever into Iraq and later did nothing while letting Kuccinich’s articles of impeachment rot on the vine — voted 140 to 95 in favor of the plan that some 60 to 67 per cent of Americans opposed. You can read who voted for what here (pay no attention to the bill’s Title, which appears to be left over from last year’s HR3997).
So anyway, my fellow Democrats, nice job. The American people give you a majority in both houses, and you squander it.
Some political sentiments never get old, do they?
Or put another way:
Q. How many Democrats does it take to screw up a two-house majority?
A. How many do we need?