Republican Incompetency Still Abounds

Voting them from power has done nothing to curb the complete incompetency that controls the modern Republican Party. A new report shows that even in the minority Republican incompetency has resulted in a record breaking 62 filibusters in one year causing not just a lack of a Congressional agenda but any sort of responsibility to go along with it.

In just one session, a minority in Congress has prevented a mind-blowing 62 pieces of legislation from going to the floor for an up or down vote," said Campaign for America's Future co-director Roger Hickey. "Our report shows how over and over again, the uncompromising minority has thwarted the will of majorities in Congress and of the American people, holding the Senate floor hostage to a radical right-wing agenda."

Sixty votes are needed to invoke cloture and end a filibuster. The 62nd cloture vote of the session is more than any single session of Congress since at least 1973, the earliest year cloture votes are available online from the Senate. Republicans are on pace to force 134 cloture votes to cut off a filibuster, according to the Campaign for America's Future analysis, more than double the historical average of the last 35 years.

Meanwhile, and despite Republican obstructionism, the Democrats have managed to accomplish more top priorities than the media's coveted and over-hyped "Republican Revolution" of 1994.

But none of this will be reported by Fox News, Drudge, the drug addicted Limbaugh or any other right wing nutjob. Reality is a terrible thing to waste.