Mike Hawk's Journal: Choice quote

"If they, for whatever reason, decide to do this, it's not only wrong, they will rue the day they did it, because we will do whatever we can do to strike back," incoming Senate Democratic leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.) said last week. "I know procedures around here. And I know that there will still be Senate business conducted. But I will, for lack of a better word, screw things up."

And that, everyone, is Democrats. Stupid. As far as I can tell, they typically screw things up, but this time he was kind enough to report that he intended to do it. And isn't this the guy who said Justice Thomas' opinions are poorly written? Nothing demonstrates mastery of the English language like the phrase "for lack of a better word". Just another example of projection. I'd link to the specific examples, but they are numerous and hopefully obvious. Think, "why does he think he knows so much about people he has never met and who do not make themselves public figures?"

Uh, how is this any different

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Than what the Republicans were doing when they were the minority party in the first two years of Clinton's term? Or the joining together of 40 neo-con and neo-liberal house members at 3:00am on a nice October morning in 2000 to hit the high-tech sector with massive guest worker immigration, while the rest of the house members were all sound asleep and failed to register any vote at all on the topic? Or that horrific 2003 marathon session of Democrats reading long passages from novels into the congressiona