"A Couple People Shouting At An Empty Room In Shifts"

The Great GOP Civil War is rolling merrily along.  John Boehner finally went on the offensive yesterday against GOP outside groups over their opposition to the recent budget agreement:

For the first time, Boehner acknowledged that these groups pushed Republicans into an unsuccessful strategy that he didn't favor. He expressed particular outrage that one of the groups later said it knew the shutdown strategy wasn't going to work.

"Are you kidding me?" Boehner shouted. "Frankly I think they're misleading their followers. I think they're pushing our members in places they don't want to be," he added. "And frankly I just think they've lost all credibility."

The American Taliban clearly did not like what Boehner had to say.  The Idiot Glenn Beck, for example, responded by calling the Speaker "worthless" and "utterly feckless," and said that those like him “have got to go.”

But as happy as all this makes me, my favorite thing to happen this week was Senator Mitch McConnell's hissy fit over the Democrats finally growing a pair and reforming the filibuster:

Last night, the Senate “pulled” an “all-nighter,” meaning there were a couple people shouting at an empty room in shifts. They did this because Democrats partially nuked the filibuster and are trying to get a big slate of nominations through before the winter break, and Republicans are trying to slow things down in protest, which they will continue to do in the days ahead.

The bottom line, though, is that a shitload of Obama nominees who had no chance of confirmation before will now all be confirmed, and there is not a goddam thing McConnell can do about it.

I find this totally hilarious, because all Sen. McConnell would've had to do was give Senate Democrats an up-or-down vote on one (or at most, two) of Obama's DC Circuit Court nominees, and the Democrats would not have gone nuclear. But McConnell gave Harry Reid no choice but to reform the filibuster, and now Obama is going to get all his nominees through the Senate.

If I was a Tea-Bagger running against McConnell in a primary, I might want to bring that up during the campaign.