How loudly do you have to shout these days.
What sort of hissy fit is in fact fit?
Don't believe a word they say, we cry.
But, but, they are honorable people, they reply.
Yah really, how many years have they demonstrated neither reason, nor compromise?
You either have to be daft or complicit in this fiasco to keep on going down this road.
Offer a daft deal, then renegotiate an even dafter deal over a self made crisis
Believe that they will act in good faith whereas you know you be wiping their spittle off your face.
But, but, we'll be good this time they cry.
I sigh.
Now we renegotiate a "gentleman's agreement" that they wouldn't behave like louts, because they just couldn't avoid playing the yob.
Bipartisanship, the media moan, is a must
Falsehood we say, the intent was always clear.
You have to be daft
Or complicit.
To take their word in good faith.
“Senate Republicans have demonstrated that they have absolutely no intention of ending their assault on the ability of the U.S. Senate to function,” Merkley told TPM
Good grief.
Rinse and repeat.