Lame Duck: not a main course

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Is the lame duck driving Congress crazy?


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• Sen. Michael Bennet talks conspiracy: Microphones on the Senate floor Tuesday picked up the Colorado Democrat between votes suggesting that the lame-duck session is "rigged."

• Rep. John Larson fires everyone: It's common for a party heading into the minority to cut back on staff and spending. But the Connecticut Democrat asked Tuesday for resignations from his personal office, as well as from his leadership and district staff. Politico has the full story.

- Rep. Steve King redefines race: The Iowa Republican took to the House floor to decry Congress' decision to pay claims to African-American farmers and American Indians. In the course of his argument, he suggested that the president favors the claim because he is "very, very urban."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_theti...icket/is-the-lame-duck-driving-congress-crazy

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[Norman Paperman]

The difference between a regular session and a "lame duck" session? the word "duck."

 

[Damocles]

The Senate isn't in a lame duck session. They will still have the majority after the new Senate is seated. It is only the House that is in a lame duck session.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

They won't be nearly as powerful in 2011.

 

[Damocles]

They won't be nearly as powerful in 2011.

Yet they still aren't "lame duck"... They chair the committees, they control the floor, they have a majority. They just aren't Senators.

Now, people who have just been fired by their constituency are trying to pass what they should have passed long ago when they were stomping all over their constituency and passing the health care malformation bill.