Wimps

I just read this at TPM Muckraker:

Last Thursday, the administration abruptly dropped its opposition to a bill that would require Senate confirmation for U.S. attorney replacements. But Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) "still intends to object," Roll Call reports (sub. req.).

Just how disruptive that objection will be is up to Kyl. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) intends to bring the legislation up for a vote "as quickly as possible," his spokesman tells Roll Call. By the rules of the Senate, which give individual senators considerable power to stymie legislation, Kyl could gum up the works with his objection, or he could simply sound his disapproval and let the bill come up for a vote.

So, I'm going to raise the question once again. If a single senator in the minority party has to power to block any bill he/she chooses, then why did the Democrats allow Bush to steamroll so much crap through the Senate when his party was in the majority? I have in mind such things as the multitude of tax cuts, the Military Commissions Act doing away with Habeas Corpus, the prescription drug program, the AUMF, the two appointments to the Supreme Court ... I could go on and on. If one person in the minority could have stopped these things, and no one did, doesn't that suggest we should throw them all out of office? I'm disgusted by my party if they let these things happen because they were afraid to appear obstructionist or something.

Wimps.