That's pretty much they only solace I take in all this. It's not as though they had an unstoppable supermajority and now it has been cruelly stripped from them. They never truly had one, not when they had to count people like Joe Lieberman to pretend they did.
The true disheartening thing is how little the Democrats seem to be willing to work with their advantages. They could do whatever the hell they wanted with 50 votes if they went reconciliation, but they're not going to, because...I don't know...they're afraid the Republicans will be angry at them, or something? After putting up with eight years of a much smaller Republican majority congress not even bothering to kindly tell my side to go stuff itself, I've truly had it with the current Congress' willingness to treat the Republican minority as though they're contributing anything at all of merit and should be listened to in any way for any reason, especially because of how openly contemptuous they're being in return, even now.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2010-01-20 09:02 pm (UTC)The true disheartening thing is how little the Democrats seem to be willing to work with their advantages. They could do whatever the hell they wanted with 50 votes if they went reconciliation, but they're not going to, because...I don't know...they're afraid the Republicans will be angry at them, or something? After putting up with eight years of a much smaller Republican majority congress not even bothering to kindly tell my side to go stuff itself, I've truly had it with the current Congress' willingness to treat the Republican minority as though they're contributing anything at all of merit and should be listened to in any way for any reason, especially because of how openly contemptuous they're being in return, even now.