GOP to Bunning: “Stop Drawing Attention To Us!”

At this point, Sen­ate Repub­li­cans are start­ing to worry that the hor­rific antics being car­ried out by the more .… oppor­tunis­tic … mem­bers of their cau­cus will give away their grand strat­egy. Jim Bun­ning, appar­ently not learn­ing a sin­gle les­son from the Shelby fiasco, has decided to stick it to the nation by object­ing to every­thing the gov­ern­ment tries to do, includ­ing the amend­ment that he wants passed.

Nuclear option in the SenateNow he’s run­ning into trou­ble with his own party. In a big “screw off” move (no, not giv­ing the fin­ger to reporters again), Bun­ning has refused even to allow Susan Collins, a mem­ber of his own party, to have a moment to speak on the Sen­ate floor. Repub­li­cans have real­ized that this draws some neg­a­tive atten­tion to the tac­tics they’ve used for the to rule the coun­try with their major­ity. They’d rather shut him up, and get back to fil­i­bus­ter­ing other things. But, uh, they can’t, because it’s his right to be as obstruc­tive as he wants to be.

The fall­out of these episodes should be fun.

2 March 2010 – 4:24 pm | By Benjamin Daniels | Posted in Politics | Tagged , , | Comments (226)