Erick Erickson over at Red State thinks that may be the game:
There has been a lot of speculation this week about why the GOP rolled over in the Senate on virtually every issue. From Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’s repeal to START to you name it — the GOP became the party of capitulation. So much so that even Lindsey Graham is blasting the Senate GOP “for a ‘capitulation … of dramatic proportions’ to Democrats and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) in the lame-duck Congress.”
In his statement about why the GOP folded like a cheap suit, Graham gives away the game. He says, “I can understand the Democrats being afraid of the new Republicans; I can’t understand Republicans being afraid of the new Republicans.”…
In other words, with Rand Paul, Marco Rubio and other genuine Republicans about to take office, this was the last chance for our RINOs to really cut conservatism off at the knees. This was their last chance to be the first to surrender to Democrats. Their last chance for favorable MSM write-ups due to their willingness to betray everything they say they stand for.
It will be much harder in 2011 for Harry Reid to find enough RINOs for cloture – very much harder, that is, to ram through liberal policies. Come January, it will be the conservative GOP which will hold the balance of power – especially because about a dozen Senate Democrats will have to routinely vote against Obama and the Democrat leadership in order to have a chance of surviving in 2012.
So, don’t take things like the START ratification too badly – sure, its a stupid policy which makes no sense, at all…but it is also the last gasp of a dying form of politics.
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