Zombie Congress

Clearly it's been too long since I checked in at the Weekly Standard. This is a great article...and I don't even recognize the name of the author: Dead-Congress Walking, by Noemie Emery.

I just worry it's like when the zombie eats the brain of the hero with his last gasp, then croaks. Sure, the zombie's dead...but he took the good guy down with him.

She (he?) concludes:

"Liberals say Democrats have to pass this bill to prove they can govern. But will the public see wasting a year on something that’s not a priority, then pushing a bill they don’t want through multiple payoffs, and ending up with something they think will make their lives worse as a species of “governing” they want anything more to do with? Meanwhile, the Democrats are in the intensive care unit, their president wounded, their members demoralized, their coalition in tatters. Come November, voters may decide they’d rather be much less “governed”—or governed by somebody else."

"...have to pass this bill to prove they can govern?"

You have to have mad cow disease for this to make any sense.

The Gunslinger
Avoiding the cattle (and zombies)