Let the games begin

The Republicans who have taken over the House of Representatives have scheduled a vote to repeal the Obama healthcare law, a maneuver guaranteed to fail while also winning them political points among their paranoid base.

The Democrats are — finally — attacking the anti-democratic filibuster, a maneuver that will raise the ire of every single Republican in the Senate.

And this is just the beginning. Things are not going to get any less ugly anytime soon.

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