Party Discipline 0
Many of my Democratic friends are extremely upset that the Democratic majority in the House and Senate has not been able to change the course of the nation.
For example.
It is indeed upsetting. At the least, there might be some satisfaction in seeing Senator Reid call the Republicans’ bluff and force them to actually stand in the podium to defent their odious policies of
- domestic spying,
- making up wars,
- selling the country to the highest bidder, and
- making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
Concomitantly (I’ve waited a year to work that into a post), it remains that, because of the extraordinary party discipline of the Republican Senate, the Democrats don’t have the votes in the Senate to break a filibuster.
Where does this discipline come from?
Find the answer here.
They are just following orders.
Also posted on Kos.
