...But get it right, okay?
Kevin Drum manages to offend... people on the right who could use more offending. Take their utterly ridiculous exercise of trying to nullify Obamacare. Take Senator Mike Lee (please) who somehow thinks attaching Obamacare to an unrelated bill to fund highway repairs will manage to kill a bill that gave Obama a political win.
So the plan is simple: have Republicans declare ex cathedra that repeal of Obamacare is germane to highway funding, and then pass Lee's amendment with 51 votes. It's brilliant! All that's missing are the sharks with lasers attached to their heads!
Aside from being mind-numbingly stupid1, it also won't work. Democrats will just filibuster the entire highway bill, or else they'll vote for it and then Obama will veto the entire mess. Result: Obamacare stays in place but our highways continue to crumble into dust. Nice work, Senator! It's good to see that the Republican Party remains committed to the sober, responsible kind of leadership that makes our great nation the envy of the world.
Senator Lee's latest foolishness comes down to a couple of footnotes contributed by Drum:
1It's times like this that I regret the recent banishment of "retarded" from polite conversation. Because I think we all know that it's the word that really fits here.2
2Though I suppose there's no reason to insult the developmentally disabled by comparing them to Mike Lee.
Some day, by the way, I'm going to boil over at our strange notion that banishing words also makes the offense they represent "disappear."
