From the article, from Harry Reid’s spokesman, no less:
“But Reid’s spokesman, Adam Jentleson, said that even he has never seen actions like what McConnell engaged in against the Republican members of the Senate. Jentleson told Breitbart News in an email:
I’ll defend filling the tree as a tactic when the leader is facing an opposition determined to use every tool available to oppose everything he does. But unlike Senator Reid, that is not the situation Senator McConnell faces; he has a cooperative minority but is filling the tree to block and silence members of his own party. Senator Reid never did that. Furthermore, Senator McConnell is going beyond filling the tree to deny his own members a sufficient second, which may be entirely unprecedented.”
FUMMc.
Might have to switch from filling the tree to watering it.
“Filling the tree” or “felling the tree”?
The vote to re-fund Planned Parenthood has to do with giving the JEBublicans cover on a huge story that the GOPe has managed to keep buried for seven years:
George W Bush funded Planned Parenthood to the tune of $2.2 Billion Dollars during his eight year tenure.
A few years later, Karen Handel, the Palin endorsee, got a job with Susan G Komen, where she found out in a most shocking manner Karl Rove was calling the shots with Planned Parenthood.
This lines up with H.W. Bush (and Barbara’s) long time pro-choice stand — just one more thing that Reagan detested in his V.P.
And, of course, it lines up with the fact Prescott Bush was on board of the original Planned Parenthood in the ‘40’s and was friends with Margaret Sanger.
(This was around the time he was wooing a young, broke Richard Nixon as his political patron. Incredible to think the Bush dynasty was behind Nixon, isn’t it? But it’s true. Weird how so many things went south for Dicky when he declined to have H.W. as his VP, but instead sent him to China.)
I think this vote to keep funding PP is political cover for JEB!
And as for Ted Cruz (a long time Bushie himself who should have known very well the Bush administration was funding PP) — why is everything he does so “lone wolfish” and therefore, impotent?
Though I appreciate Cruz’s “color commentary” today (acknowledging we have a Uniparty in D.C. and that the whole “left/right” thing is a hoax) — narrating these events for us is not Cruz’s job. Being an effective Senator is Cruz’s job.
Ya’d think he’d have figured out a winning tactic by now...