So Senator Dodd came out with his financial reform bill. Waldo says "his" because no Republicans support it.
The Republicans are gabbling about how Democrats who vote for health care reform will "be punished" in November.
Let's recap. The Republicans opposed spending money to save American jobs and industries. They'd rather have let them fail.
They are manning the barricades to protect tax cuts that have widened income disparities.
One of their heroines, Mrs Bachmann, says people can just disregard laws they don't like. Another, Governor Perry, wants Texas to secede.
One of their Senate candidates, JD Hayworth, says marriage equality will lead to men marrying horses. As Edward Gibbon noted, when he sent his horse to the Senate, at least he sent both ends.
At the same time, a Republican candidate for governor in Georgia admits having sex with a mule. Apparently they have no plans to get hitched.
They opposed extensions of unemployment payments to the workers they would have put out of work. In South Carolina, they grudgingly said, OK, you can have unemployment comp but we're gonna tax you on it.
The SC GOP also decreed that teachers take five unpaid days rather than raise the 7-sent cigarette tax. In their latest Boeing brainwave, they want to repeal the corporate income tax- the state's third largest revenue source.
The Republicans in Congress oppose legislation that would save 45,000 lives a year.
They have come down four-square on the side of giant banks and giant insurance companies and anybody else giant who will buy them.
Is that a record to run on? You bet.
Bring it on.
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