What a Difference a Few Years Makes...

Debate stalls on Wall St. overhaul

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans, including Scott Brown of Massachusetts, united with a lone Democrat yesterday to block debate on legislation designed to overhaul the nation’s financial regulations and prevent a repeat of the 2008 economic meltdown.

The 57-to-41 vote — three shy of the number that Senate rules say are needed to end the filibuster and proceed — is a setback for Democrats who have been pushing for the biggest overhaul of financial regulations since the Great Depression. It could give Republicans, who oppose several key aspects of the proposal, more momentum in brokering a bipartisan compromise.

(emphasis mine) You see, when a Democrat crosses the aisle to side with the Republicans, it's cast as a "lone Democrat". When a Democratic-sponsored bill has one GOP voter, it's bipartisan. Heck, when a Democratic-sponsored bill has no GOP votes whatsoever, it's bipartisan according to some. But when it's a Dem crossing the aisle, they're "lone" (like the "lone gunman", one supposes...)

Words mean things. Words like "bias" or "slanted" can and should be used to describe the media's coverage of what's going on in DC these days. Even with the rise of "New Media", the left-leaning powers-that-be insist on presenting what they thing the news should be, rather than simply what it is. And as long as they keep doing it in such a laughably transparent matter, those of us in our PJs will continue to point it out and mock them for it. And they will continue to hemorrhage readers...

And as long as they insist on shooting themselves squarely in the feet, I'll be happy to offer up the targets...

That is all.