Does Scott Brown have a cert from the MA Secretary of State, or whatever charming colonial name they have for that officeholder in Boston? Because didn’t we learn from the Roland Burris debacle that a Senator-elect needs all kinds of American Kennel Club paperwork in order to be sworn in?

Why would Harry Reid make Scott Brown the exception to that rule, anyway?

Or perhaps this is Harry Reid’s way of showing his vaunted ‘independence’ from the Obama Administration, newly needed in his disastrous re-election bid.

Updated with info from the Bos Globe: Deval Patrick will certify results at 930 tomorrow morning

Where’s Scott Brown’s birth certificate, anyway?

Given that the Republicans are already pretty much blocking everything in the Senate because they can, what would their “all-out war” entail?

Sitting in their high chairs and holding their breath until they turn blue?

Throwing a crying tantrum in the middle of the Capital? (Think they’d need to get Boehner into the Senate for that one since he does have the crying bit down pat)

I think we’re seeing the next stage of “all-out war” with Brown’s demand

I think it should be left to Al Franken to decide how long Brown should wait to be seated.

All out war? Aren’t they doing that now?

Looks like anonymous GOP aide an Orrin Hatch are reading the same playbook: http://firedoglake.com/2010/01/29/orrin-hatch-threatens-obstruction-if-democrats-try-to-circumvent-obstruction/

Senate GOP aide” threatened “all-out war”. I thought they were already at their battle stations carrying out offensive actions.

So what’s the difference between the Republicans and the Democrats?

Democrats couldn’t organize a one car parade in a small town.

The Republicans can organize a one car parade but would burn the town down.

Documentation, protocol, rules and procedures are for the WEAK!

Jokes aside, this is one big irony + cynicism explosion. I’d like to see Al Franken somehow designated to handle the “certification” process.

No question now. Harry Reid is a mole for the Republicans. His pants are down around his ankles. It won’t help Harry win. It will ensure his loss. The Repthuglicans maintain allegiance to no enablers. Ask Katherine Harris if she got the number of that bus.

Harry is politically tone deaf – not unlike Obama, Rahm and the rest of the poll-disbelieving “New Democrats” and “Blue Dogs”.

Fuck the Repukes they did that to the Dems how many times in the past??? Think Al Franken… how did the Pukes act when Al was trying to get seated?? Old Normie stretched out the process as far as he could. I say the Dems should force this through just like the Pukes did under Bush.
Also think about the Nuke option just like the Pukes did… Assholes everyone of them..

Maybe in a show of bipartisanship the Republicans can put forth a slate of officials for Obama to have in his administration.

How long must the nation suffer these traitors? They pose a far greater threat to the nation than any cave dwelling terrorist. They are the proverbial bad apple and until they are removed from the body politic the working and middle class are in peril.

The GOOPers will never stop obstructing as long as the Dems are BRASSLESS.I work for Delta airlines courtesy of our merger with Northwest where I worked,Delta’s ground crews are not unionized and the ground workers at Northwest are unionized and we need to have a stable NLRB so we can get on with out vote and get are unionizing settled and get a CBA that will keep us in the working middle class.

Talked to someone that was on the last flight out of New York that was a named “Northwest” flight. From now on it’s all Delta, based out of that union hating state of Georgia. She said the pilot sounded chocked up when announcing this to the passengers.

Make the Republicans filibuster. Shut down the Senate for as long as it takes. Meanwhile, force the Senators’ offices to field all the calls, letters and e-mails from angry p-o’d citizens. Have aides explain what the NLRB is, who this guy Becker is, and why the government needs to grind to a halt over it.

The Democrats might have to do this more than once as the R’s are kind of slow on the uptake. Using this to beat them down to a reasonable level would be much easier than a real knock-down and drag-out on, say, health care.

They don’t have to filibuster, they can just suggest the absence of a quorum and force a roll call. That’s all it takes.

A nominee to a board, one nominee, is of this much concern to the
Republicans?

Can anyone tell me why?

From my perspective this is one of several sham outrages manufactured by republicans.

I would expect many more of these manufactured tempests prior to November.

The landrieu espionage was to be one,

The complaints about putting the airplane suicide bomber under control of the federal judiciary rather that under military rule is another,

This tea-pot tempest over a single appointed is a third.

The republican political strategy up to the first week in November has been clear for several
Months now,

Never cooperate,

Always criticize when the opportunity presents ( or manufacture that opportunity),

Manipulate or misleadingly interpret political events to make the dems appear

Well, like republicans have appeared to the nation -

Power abusers,

Corrupt,

Inept,

Uncaring,

Friends of rich corps and individuals,

—–.

When you’re trying to figure out republican political strategy,

Always think rove -

Attack, attack, attack.

Doing so makes it hard for the dems to have an offense;

they are always defending themselves.

A core principle of the modern GOP is a war on workers. It’s key to their electoral success. This is a direct shot, and they won, just like they won on the Employee Free Choice Act.

Mega-ditto!

Where does this leave HCR?

Hmm, our entire government is fucking stupid.

Yes, for some reason the name of Al Franken came to mind for me, too.

Michael Whitney @22

I was Informed by your post and appreciate your sharing your knowledge.

With respect to my point about republican strategy,

Whether it is My special political interest, or yours, or some other fdl writer/commenter’s,

All of us need to look past our own special areas of interest to focus on the pattern forming in The media arising from manufactured GOP protests.

These manufactured “protests” are the preferred GOP weapon now.

While each protest may seem unrelated to others,

I’m willing to bet they are not.

Each ” protest” is a piece in a mosaic being laid down by central republican strategy

Of democratic party “abuse of majority rule”, fecklessness”, “incompetence”, “venality”, “irresponsibility (fiscal and security matters), —.

The liberal challenge is to resist particularizing and compartmentalizing each Protest.

The manufactured protest in your area of interest is, I believe,

Connected by malign intent with republican protests in other areas, e.g., national security.

A shady move like that would spark an all-out war, the aide said.

A war, eh? One can only hope.