The headline at Michelle Malkin’s site implies something very daunting:

The Donkey Congress is allergic to debate

Conservative stalwart Sens. Tom Coburn and Jim DeMint blew the whistle  last  week on a new report from…

On July 28th, 2008 at 8:21 pm, meatsss said:

Is Reid wrangling to be the next Daschle voted out of the Senate?

We can only hope and pray that he follows Daschle’s lead.

riplag said:
Hey, Demint & Coburn – What part of Unanimous Consent (UC) do you not understand? Unanimous means everybody, all, the whole Senate! You could have blocked any of the bills by with holding your consent!

Errr…ummmm… you obviously need a Remedial Reading course.

Coburn was referring to a non-partisan study released on June 10 by the government’s Congressional Research Service (CRS), which indicates that 855 of the 911 bills passed by the Senate of the 110th Congress have been streamlined by Democratic Party leadership with a procedural tactic known as Unanimous Consent (UC), which requires no debate or even a vote.

The CRS report states, “[T]he vast majority of measures passed or agreed to by the Senate so far in the 110th Congress have not received formal parliamentary debate on the floor of the Senate.” This practice, known as “hotlining,” has traditionally been reserved for noncontroversial bills with little to no cost to the taxpayer, like the naming of post offices. However, the practice has been abused to sneak through large bills that cost the taxpayers billions of dollars and have significant policy implications.

How do you oppose a bill if there’s no debate? How do you withhold your consent when there’s no vote?

Face it, riplag: you’ve soiled yourself in public again! May I suggest you carry around one of those long handled shoehorns? You can use them to scrape out your shorts after committing embarrrassments such as this one.

I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate. – John Adams

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In my many years, I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two useless men are a law firm, and three or more is a congress. – John Adams

Now that’s a man who understood the nature of politics and human beings.

An excellent post.

Just like Obama.

The Rogue Far Right.

Sign me up! Better yet: Sign more GOP senators up. Stat.

The new Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy™.