Democrats in the Senate have an Epiphany: Republicans are obstructionist..

[Fumesucker]

Some Democrats in the Senate apparently have been hit with the clue stick, albeit remarkably late.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/21/health/policy/21senatecnd.html?_r=4&ref=politics

Members of both parties say the dispute over health care has created bad blood, left both Democrats and Republicans suspicious of the opposition’s motives, and shattered some of the institution’s traditional collegiality.

At the same time, Democrats say the apparently unbridgeable health care divide has convinced them that Republicans are dedicated solely to blocking legislative proposals for political purposes. Several said they now realized that they would have to rely strictly on their own caucus to advance such defining issues as climate change in 2010.

“We have crossed the mark of over 100 filibusters and acts of procedural obstruction in less than one year,” Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, said on the floor Sunday. “Never since the founding of the Republic, not even in the bitter sentiments preceding Civil War, was such a thing ever seen in this body.”

[romulusnr]

1. Time to "nuke" 'em! [nt]

[Renew Deal]

2. Sort of

I think the rules need to be revisited. They should probably be changed in the next term.

[DJ13]

3. "Much to his chagrin, little Wilbur discovered that hitting himself

...over the head repeatedly hurts. He eventually grew up and became a Democratic Senator."

[CanonRay]

4. No shit Sherlock