House Democrats, ostensibly “led” by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, have decided to sit out the rest of their lame-duck majority, citing “difficulty in passing any legislation at all,” now that minority Republicans have announced their determination to filibuster every bill they see, even those they personally co-sponsor, sponsor or introduce.
“We made it clear from the get-go,” explains uncommonly orange tan-man John Boner, “We voted down the bill to extend the digital television deadline as our first order of business, and all that did was screw over a huge majority of our ‘real American’ constituents, those in rural areas.”
Nancy Pelosi loudly murmured through the morbid death mask she calls her face, “I’m going to Disneyland!”