Running Out the Clock

John Cole, on congressional Republican tactics to stall until Xmas:

Insist on tax cuts first, running out the clock a good bit, then demand that amendments be allowed, and then let the others do the dirty work with thousands of amendments and procedural stalling. But David Broder will be impressed with how reasonable you are!

This should also manage to eat up enough of the legislative clock that we can dismiss START and unemployment benefits extension and anything else. But hey- rich folks will get a tax cut!

I don't know how you outmanuever this. 

Obama being silent doesn't help.

Comments

[brendancalling]

he wasn't exactly silent. he essentially tried the "bright shiny object" strategy, by running to Afganistan to say thanks to our troops.

which is a little less than silence actually.