It has been an awkward winter and spring for the Grand Old Party, but as the city sanitation department sweeps away the last of the cherry blossoms, the Republicans seem to be re-forming as a coherent fighting mechanism.
He's right that the GOP has seemed a little hapless since the tsunami in December took the attention off the GOP win in November. However, it looks like our guys are starting to get their act together and are beginning to play the role of majority party once again. Blankley describes the situation this way:
It was a sorry picture indeed: A city full of large, ivory-tusked, bull battle elephants driven to fear, distraction and goring each other by the braying of a pack of mangy jackasses.
But the Democrats appear to have overplayed their hand. The tactic of "boo" must be used sparingly — preferably when it is dark, and preferably at unsuspecting targets. After the donkeys with alligator masks on have jumped out from behind the capitol columns three or four times in succession in broad daylight shouting "boo," it has begun to dawn on the Republican elephants that the only danger to them is if they stumble down the steps in response to the "boo." The Democrats are powerless to do much of anything in national politics of a functional nature. All they can do is malfunction and hope to induce the Republicans to join them in their malfunctioning. By using angled light, the Democrats have been able to spend the winter and spring casting a larger shadow than their actual stature would justify.
The real test will be next week when the first of the filibustered judicial nominees comes up for a floor vote. Who's going to blink first? Both sides are spoiling for a fight, but I sense weakness creeping into the Dem positions. They've been all sanctimonious bluster up to now, but I'm not sure they've got what it takes to stand up to vote on the filibuster.
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