{"id":201204,"date":"2010-01-19T15:37:18","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T20:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"tag:business.theatlantic.com,2010:\/\/3.33780"},"modified":"2010-01-19T15:40:48","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T20:40:48","slug":"let-the-wild-rumpus-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/201204","title":{"rendered":"Let the Wild Rumpus Start"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republicans want Brown seated ASAP, if he wins.  Democrats, naturally, would like to stretch out the process as long as reasonably possible.  I think that if Scott Brown wins tomorrow, we’ll be hearing a lot of back and forth on these precedents<\/a>.  My summary: the folks in power tend to do whatever they want.  Which is usually okay, because it just doesn’t matter that much.<\/p>\n

I don’t know which narrative will catch on.  But I’m not sure that’s the most important factor.  Whether or not it’s fair<\/i> for Democrats to stall Brown’s swearing-in, can they actually do it?  Or rather, can they actually do it, and then pass a massively unpopular health care bill on a straight party-line vote?  Even if only a small minority think of this as illegitimate procedural shenanigans, that’s going to further tarnish the chances of a party that’s already under fire for cutting too many DC insider deals.<\/p>\n

That’s not to say that Democrats won’t do it, of course.  The Democratic determination to commit electoral suicide over this issue has been impressively firm over months of negotiations; there’s no particular reason they should stop now.<\/p>\n

Either way, though, we can look forward to at least several weeks of Bush v. Gore style continuous arguments over previously unimportant procedural points.  I suppose it’s a nice break from the death panels and the accusations of mass murder.

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Republicans want Brown seated ASAP, if he wins.  Democrats, naturally, would like to stretch out the process as long as reasonably possible.  I think that if Scott Brown wins tomorrow, we’ll be hearing a lot of back and forth on these precedents.  My summary: the folks in power tend to do whatever they want.  Which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}