Charlie Pierce : How to deal with Turtle-Man and Cruz (a political two-fer!)

"To me, it's past time for the Democratic majority in the Senate to help out poor Mitch McConnell. Here's what they do. They explain to him that, because he's in real trouble in his general election down in Kentucky, he needs some sort of "bipartisan" deal out of the next few months. (That he also is in trouble with the flying monkeys of the Right is not our concern. Sorry, pal.) Here is the price -- Ted Cruz's political balls. We will not insist that his desk be placed on the sidewalk outside of the Russell Building. But, right now, he is stripped of his plum committee assignments. His requests for constituent services all will be referred to his more reasonable -- Holy mother of god, what a thing -- colleague, John Cornyn, or they will be ignored. His pleas for recognition from the chair often will fall mysteriously on deaf ears. This is not much, Harry Reid will explain to Mitch McConnell. You don't get to use him as an ideological hitman and then bitch about him later any more. It's for your own good, Mitch. If a Democratic senator had given this much trouble to Lyndon when that magnificent sinner was running the Senate, you wouldn't have been able to identify the guy with dental records. All we're trying to do, Mitch, is make your life easier. Honest.

Sometimes, the burden of being a "bipartisan" leader is a heavy one."

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