It's kind of sad watching the Democrats rush to pass legislation before the Republicans retake

[Tony_FLADEM]

the House next year.

It's like watching people trying to prepare before a hurricane hits.


I hope they retake the House in 2012.

[Ozymanithrax]

1. That is what they do in a lame duck congress.

happens every two years, like clockwork.

[dkf]

2. Why would they need to if we held it?

[Ozymanithrax]

3. If you remember, the house passed far more bills than the Senate..

that alone leaves a lot of stuff to do. There are some things that took a lot of time, such as the defense authorization bill that was further slowed down by adding the repeal of DADT. Things never go fast in Congress. Never.

That is the way it works. It doesn't matter who is in control.

[dkf]

5. Yet its the house that is still passing bills.

The Senate is having those wonderfully revealing votes that get us nowhere...not even media attention.

[Ozymanithrax]

6. That is the way the system works.

It was designed to move slowly.

[DJ13]

4. It's kind of sad watching the Democrats rush to pass

GOP legislation before the Republicans retake the House next year.

[leftstreet]

7. +1