comments_image Comments  If the GOP's Crazy Tea Party Candidates
Win Senate Seats, the Country Will Be Ungovernable   Cross-
posted from the Booman Tribune.  While I consider a lot of the
progressive anger at the administration to involve a degree of
naïveté about how Congress functions, the Tea Partiers are no
more informed. Alexander Burns examines in  Poltico the question
of whether the GOP will be hurt by all its oddball candidates.
Even Republicans are struggling to understand the results of
their primaries.   But Washington doesn't do radical change and
even if all the oddball Republicans are elected to Congress,
they won't radically change the kind of legislation that it
produces. What they'll do is prevent any legislation from being
produced at all.  It gets tiresome to keep repeating myself, but
it must be understood what it means that the Senate operates by
unanimous consent. It means that one ornery senator can grind
the upper body to a halt. To see what I mean let's go back to 
July 2008:     As it