The Terrible New Majority Leadership In The Senate

Yeah, the New York Times is pretty lost here:

Man, memories at The New York Times sure are short. Completely lost are the last, long six years of Republican bitterness and unprecedented obstruction. You know, the days when the Times editorial board wrote:

Senate Republicans have refused to allow confirmation votes on dozens of perfectly qualified candidates nominated by President Obama for government positions. They tried to nullify entire federal agencies by denying them leaders. They abused Senate rules past the point of tolerance or responsibility.

What do we get from their reporters now?

WASHINGTON — Democrats were adjusting grudgingly to their new and reduced role in the Senate on Wednesday, displaying some surliness and a lot of suspicion, saying they would not be silent or passive players in the new Republican-controlled Congress.

In so quickly assuming the role of the aggressors on only the second day of the new session, Democrats struck a discordant tone when compared with Republican pleas for greater bipartisan cooperation.

Yeah, there we go, the Republicans want bipartisanship, now that they're in charge of both houses of Congress again. Mitch McConnell, the now Majority Leader in the Senate, the guy who said it was his goal to make the President a one term President, he wants bipartisanship. The guy who kept his caucus voting straight ticket "no" on everything in the chamber while Democrats were in charge, he now wants harmony. No, no harmony for him or his crazy caucus. None at all.

I mean, listen to this BS from the new "leader":

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) told colleagues on the first full day of the new Congress to expect a dramatic change from his predecessor, Democratic leader Harry Reid (D-NV), The Hill reports.

“He pledged he would decentralize power in the Senate, which had become concentrated in Reid’s office during the past eight years of Democratic rule… He promised to ‘open up the legislative process’ to allow senators on both sides of the aisle more opportunity to offer and vote on amendments.”

Said McConnell: “It’s time to change the business model. We need to return to regular order. We need to get committees working again. We need to recommit to a rational, function appropriations process.”

All this... from the leader of the "party of no." I'll pass. The Senate ran fine last year. Democrats should draw a line in the sand with the GOP and let them gasp for their own air. Their internal divisions will destroy them. There is no reward for Democrats as a party to work with McConnell, and no consequence, and the proof is that McConnell is the Majority Leader now. He spent the last six years trying to destroy the President, and was rewarded with a promotion. I think the message for Democrats is clear.