Balloon Juice is not Kool-Aide

John Cole is really pissed at his Republican Party:

As for the filibuster bullshit, we slit our own damned throats with that. I would like an up or down vote on nominees, but I just don't have it in me to lie about the situation.

We changed the rules of the game, and then acted all shocked when the Democrats (who are in no way without sin) got pissed. We stopped the blue slips and other options once we became the majority. The Constitutional issue is nothing more than nonsense to sell the naked power grab, and that is what it was. Bush never expected for all of his judges to get confirmed- no reasonable President would.

We were going to break the Senate rules THAT WE AGREED TO AND OPERATED UNDER WITH FEW PROBLEMS in order to make the rule change. And worse, we were going to set the stage so the minority party has no options, unwilling to recognize the fact that we will be in the minority again (sooner than these morons recognize, the rate we are going now- seen Bush's approval ratings?), and that the filibuster would be dead for everything if successfully killed for judges. Only an idiot would argue otherwise, which, of course is why so many members of my party are doing just that. They are idiots.

Assholes?

It is all or nothing for these assholes. You are with us or against us. There can be no middle-ground. We must have complete power, complete control, or we just blow up the fucking system and remake it our way, because, after all, we won an election by 2% of the vote.

And why?

For the bankruptcy bill? To please Dobson and keep the lunatics happy? To ban stem cell research and keep harassing the fags? To give the Democrats a defeat, however bad it is for the country? To strong-arm enbough votes to pass the budget busting Prescription Drug Pill? For deficits as far as the eye can see? To allow more censorship of entertainment and make obscenity criminal? To pass more mandatory minimus while cutting rehabilitation?
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But let me warn you- the Democrats just don't seem that damned scary anymore. You people have me to the point that if it were 2004 all over again, and I knew what I know now, I don't know if I necessarily would have pulled the lever for that two-faced weasel Kerry, but I would have found it EXCEPTIONALLY difficult to vote for Bush.

Another Republican that's Running Scared? You should also check out the comments. John Cole can set the wingnuts off more than the lefties do.