Our top concern should be the safety and security of our nation, not some politician's desire to declare a political victory and host a press conference before the first of the year.
The projection -- who's gamed the timing of this vote? -- take one's breath away. Even more so, the disrespect.
McConnell's locution -- some politician -- recalls the sneer of the rapacious banker Potter in It's a Wonderful Life, as he smears the lending practices of the Bailey Building & Loan -- and particularly of its president-to-be, that model of empathic probity young George Bailey:
You see, if you shoot pool with some employee here, you can come and borrow money.
You might argue that an ideological caricature like Potter the banker doesn't much illuminate complex contemporary political reality. But turn that charge around. Republicans, in their demonization of Obama, are caricaturing themselves.Why credit the fulminations of some shameless lying demagogue?
