At times like these, I really enjoy perusing Red State. It amuses me that they think that they understand congressional procedure. But it’s pretty much just a right-wing version of Firedoglake.
There’s always a decent audience for the “standing on principles” purity bloggers but their analysis is never worth crap. If they have any real impact, it’s in terrorizing stupid politicians. They actively mis-educate anyone who relies for them for explanations of how a bill can become a law or what might reasonably be expected to be in those laws.
In this case, the analysis gives you a twofer. They don’t understand the procedural steps that they’re talking about and they fault the leaders for not doing things that their members do not support. You can’t just say that it makes no difference if you close down DHS if basically no one agrees with you. Plus, they still can’t explain why the Dems would ever cave to their demands.
It’s just impotent raging about an imagined impotence, when the real impotence is in the force of their argument. Not enough people care about Obama’s executive orders on immigration to make a DHS shutdown a compelling strategy even if it would somehow work.
