Thursday, June 16, 2016

Gentleman's Agreement

Senate Democrats ended a nearly 15-hour filibuster early Thursday after Republican Party leaders reportedly agreed to allow votes on two proposed gun control measures. [More]
Who, specifically? And will we see any downgrading of their NRA ratings? Because if we don't, we'll be able to infer they knew they could proceed with cover.

We'll also be able to tell much along those lines after the votes.

This compromising is bullshit. I've written before about how after Sandy Hook, there was a cadre of connected insiders trying to get everyone on board with the "we've got to give them something" preemptive surrender.  Some of us let it be known in closed group correspondence that we'd be pointing fingers and screaming if that happened.

It would appear that same faction is once more counseling that the politically smart thing to do is throw the circling jackals a scrap of flesh to persuade them to go away. You know, just like it happens in nature.

[Via Felix B]

2 comments:

Elmo said...

I think a great compromise between giving them something and pointing fingers would be to give them the finger.

Anonymous said...

Should have let the twinks prattle on until they wee'd their pants.