Obstruction

There are defining moments in politics. Republicans have defined themselves. They are not free market conservatives, for they were willing to do the bailout. They don’t object to nationalizing the banks or micromanaging the auto industry on the fly. They are class warriors, willing to risk a worse global economic calamity in order to break a union, to force workers into bankruptcy. Herbert Hoover time. Happy Holidays, too.

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As oil prices hit record highs, all indications are that a stubborn conservative minority in the U.S. Senate will stand in the way of sensible energy legislation that would shift tax breaks away from Big Oil, which doesn't need them, and toward renewable energy companies that do.

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Once again, an obstinate Republican minority in the Senate vetoes the majority will, this time on a stimulus package that had bipartisan legislative and broad public support. Over the past year, we've documented the routine use of the filibuster by the Republican minority to block measures supported by the Democratic majority and a majority of the American public.

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