Washington is a baseball town. So let's talk baseball. Denny Hastert, the former Republican Speaker, has made himself the “curve-ball” in the Republican play book. He has served the Dems up a pitch that they should be able to drive right down the left field line and over the fence for a home-run.
The Republicans currently on base ( the whole “Clown Car”, all nineteen of them)trying to score a run in the primary—all LGBT hating, God-fearing social conservatives—are going to have to go back and tag-up before they try to advance. The stands in the park are going to be full, and it's going to be interesting to see how the red-shirted Elephants try to play this. How they try to sell it to the fans. I can see a lot of unforced errors coming. Before when the Republicans were in charge, back when Denny was Speaker, there use to be such a thing in the Congress as the Hastert Rule, a gimmicky parliamentary trick the limits the power of the minority party to bring bills up for a vote on the House floor. Under the rule, the Speaker of the House will not allow a floor vote on a bill unless a majority of the majority party supports it. Now that's what you call real representative democracy But even that's not going to help the Republicans now. This recent sex scandal makes it a whole new ball game.
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The Hastert Rule . . . Washington Sex Scandals . . . and Hard Ball Politics
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