I got a chuckle out of this line from Howard Fineman’s piece this week on Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell.
As the GOP leader there, McConnell strands Democrats in snowdrifts of parliamentary procedure and nasty talking points. “We are not just reflexively looking for areas where there will be no progress,” he assured me. Having spent many years listening to McConnell, I can translate: he is reflexively looking for areas where there will be no progress.