08-10-2011, 05:08 PM
It will be interesting to see who McConnell and Boehner pick. My hunch is that they will pack it with ideologues who will be most likely to not give anything and we'll be back to the whole sad scenario we keep seeing played out over and over where the Democrats start with a position well to the right of their most liberal membership and give up buckets of concessions while the Republicans start with an extreme right position and only give a glimmer of promise of concessions so that they can entice the Democrats to give up more - and then pull back from even that glimmer of a concession, having gotten something from the Democrats with nothing in exchange. I hope I'm wrong about that, but the people picked by Reid don't give me much of a reason to think so.