The Ball’s In Harry’s Court

The Senate Majority leader is not required to honor any Senator’s hold which means Harry Reid can dare the entire GOP caucus (and any conservadems who might feel like joining in) to filibuster every single one of President Obama’s nominees while the entire nation watches on television. But if Reid lets the entire federal government come grinding to a halt becuase of “Senatorial courtesy,” then it’s time to find a new majority leader.

Everything That Is Wrong with the US Senate in One Sentence

One Senator, Richard Shelby (R-AL), can singlehandedly shut down the entire Senate because the administration gave a big military spending contract to Boeing instead of a European company.

How Did Nobody Notice This?

Illinois Democrats just nominated an accused batterer for Lieutenant Governor:

Scott Lee Cohen — a pawnbroker who shocked state Democratic leaders Tuesday night by winning the party’s nomination for lieutenant governor — was arrested about four-and-a-half years ago and accused of holding a knife to a former live-in girlfriend’s neck, newly obtained court records show.

The misdemeanor charge against Cohen was dropped weeks later when the woman — who had just been found guilty of prostitution — failed to show up to testify, according to those records.

Cohen disclosed his domestic violence arrest when he announced his candidacy, but the details about the knife and prostitution case didn’t surface in the campaign, as Cohen was considered a longshot.

So let me get this straight. He admitted to having been arrested for DV, nobody bothered to ask him about the details of that arrest, and then they nominated him to the Democratic ticket anyway? Ingenious. Maybe Democrats should just give up on this whole “winning elections” business entirely.

The Jokes Write Themselves

Six More Weeks of Winter

Useless fracking rodent.

1 Cf.

Simple Answers to Simple Questions

The BBC asks, why do people often vote against their own interests?

Because so many American voters are dumb.

This has been another rousing edition of Simple Answers to Simple Questions.