Snatching Defeat From The Jaws of . . . Defeat

In a post last week, Greg Sargent used the phrase "snatching defeat from the jaws of defeat" to describe all the repeat votes the Republicans in Congress are doing with regard to Obama's nuclear deal with Iran.  But even Sargent is probably surprised that the GOP is still at it.

They made yet another attempt yesterday to block Obama's deal, and the result was pretty much the same:

Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, had called for a second vote despite protests from Democrats that it was a waste of time. Mr. McConnell insisted that senators needed to rethink their support for the accord, but 42 Democrats — the same number as last week — teamed to prevent the resolution from advancing.

And it's still not over. Incredibly, there remains at least one more vote on the horizon:

Frustrated with the outcome, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., set up a third vote Thursday on a measure that would bar Obama from lifting sanctions on Iran unless Tehran recognized Israel as a state and released U.S. prisoners held in Iran.

I think Einstein once said that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result, and we've seen this particular brand of insanity before.  Indeed, I lost count of how many times the GOP-controlled House has voted to repeal Obamacare, but it is well over fifty by now.

And the insanity is spreading.  Kim Davis, that asshole clerk from Kentucky, continues to beat a dead horse in her quest to show just how much of a hateful prick she is:

A motion by Kim Davis -- the anti-gay marriage clerk in Kentucky -- to halt a requirement that she issue marriage licenses to gay couples was denied by a federal appeals court Tuesday. Davis is suing Kentucky Gov. Steven Beshear (D) and state librarian Wayne Onkst for enforcing a requirement that Kentucky clerks grant same-sex marriage licenses, which she objects to on religious grounds. She had ask the 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to temporarily halt the requirement while the lawsuit proceeds.

Time to move on, folks.

** I know that Kim Davis is supposedly a Democrat, but she's definitely from the Zell Miller Wing of the Democratic Party.