Defeat Strategy

Posted on March 4, 2010 by Matt Osborne

Senate Republicans are turning their desperate ire on the Senate Parliamentarian, a man seldom seen and rarely even photographed. Politico’s Manu Raju writes:

“I think most people don’t trust him,” said a senior GOP official who regularly works with the parliamentarian.

So you work with him on a regular basis, but he’s not trustworthy? Logical! Almost as fun as Jim DeMinted questioning Alan Frumin’s “objectivity” — this is the man who explained to Harry Reid and Rahm Emanuel that they could not pass the entire Senate bill through reconciliation. Remember September through December? That was Frumin’s fault.

Of course, all of this noise is intended to “inform” the right wing Lost Cause mythology that inevitably follows defeat. Just as the 16th Amendment was supposedly never ratified, wingnuts 20 years from now will say that ObamaCare was rammed through Congress in an illegal way. Revisionist histories are now built in real-time.

But what most interests me about this news is that it’s a defeat strategy. There may be no depth to how far Republicans will sink before the bill passes, and that is the point.

Maintaining my boycott of Politico links:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/33814.html

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