y. In the Republican Fantasy World, which is increasingly engulfing mainstream media, the minority party actually gets majority rights. And the Constitutional law that says a bill passes the senate with a simple majority actually becomes a super majority vote to give the minority Republicans more power. And now we see the face of true bipartisanship, Rush Limbaugh, demanding that not only should the senate be controlled by 60 votes, but also since the GOP received roughly 46% of the vote in November that legislation should be divided up by electoral returns. Yes, that's right. Republicans control the senate because the Democrats only have a 18 seat majority and Republicans get to control 46% of legislation because that's truly how a bipartisan government operates.Never in the history of America has a minority party enjoyed so many luxuries in governance and media portrayal. One would almost think the Republicans enjoyed huge amounts of success in November of 2008. Constitutional laws get thrown out to pander to the minority; legislation gets divvied up to as not insult a party that lost over 50 house seats in two years and 14 senate seats. Even when the Democrats were at their weakest period, 2001-2006, never did they have as few seats as what the GOP has now. So how come during the first part of this decade when the Democrats were supposedly weak and powerless yet still had more seats in government than the GOP has now, did we not have a unconstitutional 60 vote senate requirement and did not divide legislation up according to electoral returns-- returns that barely favored Republicans?
Alas, though, we all are forced to succumb to the Republican Fantasy World where elections and simple majority votes no longer matter. It's a world led by a right wing, hate-filled, drug addict who is the epitome of macho, Viagra-popping conservatism. Even when you are as impotent as Rush Limbaugh is, you still have the most stroke around when you live in the Republican Fantasy World. Welcome to it.
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