Saturday, March 03, 2012
Log-rolling is a coup?
It's hardly worth mentioning AP's uniform and drearily predictable bias, but this example is so egregious and subtle that I think it's worth a note.
Trading favors to "peel off" a few votes is a routine everyday part of every legislature's function. But because Repooflicans did it, and especially because it was used against the Satanic Supreme Sacrament Of Universal Infanticide, it becomes a "budget coup."
Describing a dull legislative process as a "coup" is like describing a tap on the brake pedal as a "multiple-fatality head-on pileup." ¶ 5:28 AM
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- A bill to link abortion coverage to maternity care has died in the Washington state Senate.
The bill was caught up in a Friday afternoon Republican budget coup, in which the GOP peeled off the necessary three Democratic votes to introduce an austere budget plan.
The abortion measure, HB 2330, had passed the House and Democrats expected it to have the votes necessary in the Senate, but two attempts to bring it to the floor were narrowly voted down in the aftermath of the budget coup.
Trading favors to "peel off" a few votes is a routine everyday part of every legislature's function. But because Repooflicans did it, and especially because it was used against the Satanic Supreme Sacrament Of Universal Infanticide, it becomes a "budget coup."
Describing a dull legislative process as a "coup" is like describing a tap on the brake pedal as a "multiple-fatality head-on pileup." ¶ 5:28 AM
