Just a little reminder for the Times.
Man, memories at
The New York Times sure are short. Completely lost are the last, long six years of Republican bitterness and unprecedented obstruction. You know, the days when the
Times editorial board
wrote:
Senate Republicans have refused to allow confirmation votes on dozens of perfectly qualified candidates nominated by President Obama for government positions. They tried to nullify entire federal agencies by denying them leaders. They abused Senate rules past the point of tolerance or responsibility.
What do we get from their reporters
now?
WASHINGTON — Democrats were adjusting grudgingly to their new and reduced role in the Senate on Wednesday, displaying some surliness and a lot of suspicion, saying they would not be silent or passive players in the new Republican-controlled Congress.
In so quickly assuming the role of the aggressors on only the second day of the new session, Democrats struck a discordant tone when compared with Republican pleas for greater bipartisan cooperation.
In the face of those Republican pleas, the
Times tell us, Democrats "heaped blame," "took a swipe" at Republicans, while McConnell made a speech "brimming with optimism about the kinds of bipartisan compromise the new Congress might forge." Yeah, that McConnell, he's all about the bipartisan compromise. That's why he's so committed to working with the White House on Keystone XL, immigration, Obamacare …