"This Is Not About Hayes"

Another good one from the party of NO:

The Senate Democratic leadership is preparing to lose a vote Wednesday morning on the confirmation of David Hayes as Deputy Secretary of Interior. If that happens, it would be the first time Congress votes to reject one of President Obama’s nominees.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s spokesman Jim Manley tells CNN that Democrats believe Republicans will vote in lockstep to block Hayes’ nomination, and therefore, it will fail.

Republican objections to Hayes appear to have little to do with him or his qualifications, and more to do with an Obama administration policy.

Specifically, Utah Republican Robert Bennett has been leading his party’s opposition to Hayes because of an Obama decision to cancel oil and gas leases in Utah.

“This is not about Hayes,” Bennett spokeswoman Tara Hendershott tells CNN.

(shaking my head, then scratching it)

This is our congress at work, ladies and gentlemen. Nothing the Republican party does bears any resemblance to what they are supposed to do as elected officials. It's all payback now because the American people elected a Democrat for president, and stocked both the Senate and the House with Democrats. And the Republicans aren't even looking for cover -- they are out in front with their bullshit. As Robert Bennett has said in his opposition to Hayes, "[T]his is not about Hayes." Yup, voting against the man for the post he is up for, is not about the man at all. Bennett just has a bug up his ass, and as a congresscritter, he'd rather scratch his butt then make an informed decision on his vote.

Go figure.

And, while were on the subject of stupid Republicans, how about their new resolution to rename the Democratic party the Democrat Socialist Party? They can't get their own ducks lined up in a row to rebrand the Republican party's image, so the next plan is to rename the Democrats. That's a hoot. As the Republicans are oft to say when explaining their ridiculousness, "who cares?"

A member of the Republican National Committee told me Tuesday that when the RNC meets in an extraordinary special session next week, it will approve a resolution rebranding Democrats as the “Democrat Socialist Party.”

When I asked if such a resolution would force RNC Chairman Michael Steele to use that label when talking about Democrats in all his speeches and press releases, the RNC member replied: “Who cares?”