As Democratic leaders pressed fence-sitting members of their party to get behind Obama’s top legislative priority, Republican Senate leaders made a rare trip across the Capitol for a meeting with their colleagues in the House of Representatives. … “We have a responsibility to ensure that the rules of the Senate are not abused,” said Sen. Lamar Alexander, of Tennessee, the No. 3 Senate GOP leader.
Why are GOP lawmakers expressing such concern? Because they’d hate to see the hallowed rules of Congress bent in service of achieving a political goal. Low and dirty tactics are beyond Democrats. It would only give them guilt pangs later. They’d specifically like House Democrats to forget the names Newt Gingrich and Tom “The Hammer” Delay…
