I Boldly Predict That The 2015 Senate Will Be the Same as the 2014 Senate

Brian Beutler writes today about the recent Republican practice of gumming up the Senate by deluging every bill with a tidal wave of awkward, superfluous, or just plain dumb amendments designed to force Democrats to cast politically embarrassing votes ("Is Senator Catnip really opposed to free flag pins for all vets?"): To deny Democrats even symbolic victories, Senate Republicans have flooded each legislative debate with amendments—some pertinent, some absurd—that Democrats didn’t want to...