Boehner's "improvised Weekend at Bernie's routine"

Introducing our new vanity-based Constitution: debt ceiling edition

by Hunter

It should be noted, yet again, that Boehner's "bipartisan" bill (Republican House members think "bipartisan" means "twice as partisan") has absolutely no chance of going anywhere in the Senate. It's very, very dead. It's so dead that the only way Boehner can even continue to shuffle it around is to do an improvised Weekend at Bernie's routine, carrying the moldering thing from House member to House member, stitching it up as best as he can until he can finally dump it on the Senate's doorstep.

Everybody knows it's dead, though. There's no question about it. Everything happening now is just an attempt by the House GOP, and Boehner foremost, to save face by showing that they're at least competent enough to pass something addressing this crisis of their own creation. Even if that "something" is a big pile of nothing.

So now we've gotten to the point where, in order to pass this piece of vanity legislation, we're going to propose amending the Constitution. You know, the piece of paper that is Holy Writ, in most circumstances, but isn't quite holy enough not to tinker with on a vanity-based lark. Boehner has stuffed a Balanced Budget Amendment into his zombie bill solely in order to appease his more irrational members who at the end of the day, I think, just want to say they had a part in fiddling with the Constitution.

It's not going to pass the Senate. It's a dead bill. So if we're going to propose amending the very Constitution of the United States in order to pick up a stray vote or two on a bit of stupid Republican vanity legislation, why not go all out? I'm sure there's plenty of other amendments we can add. Screw "original intent" and all that: if we don't pass this nonsense bit of legislation right the hell now, John Boehner might look bad. We can't allow that now, can we?

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