Games, Pt. II

The childish Republicans' little gambit worked in the House, but it'll die in the Senate, and the whole thing will accomplish nothing for anyone at all. Except worried Republican incumbents who can now dishonestly say "I voted to increase the minimum wage" without mentioning they tied it to Paris Hilton's tax cut.

The first, the VERY first, order of business in a Democratic Congress must be this: a law specifically banning combining disparate bills. Call it the Poison Pill Act. A tax bill cannot be combined with a wage hike bill. A defense measure cannot be combined with an ANWR bill. The Republicans keep doing this over and over again, the whole world knows it's dishonest, and it keeps the Congress from doing the people's business.

I almost think you could run on the Poison Pill Act in the fall if you could explain to Americans what it means.