It’s become clear over the last 24 hours or so that Sen. Bunning (R-KY) isn’t really alone in his filibuster that’s triggering all these Medicare and Unemployment insurance cuts. He’s being actively assisted or at least encouraged by a number of his Republican colleagues. But in a lot of press reports, not only are reporters unwilling to call it a filibuster, they don’t even mention Bunning’s name. It’s just “senate gridlock.”
Some of this has to do with the fact that even a few days in a lot Democrats seem bizarrely eager to keep this whole thing a secret. But it’s really a press failure. Can you let me know when you see examples of the use of this phrase or other efforts to obscure what’s going on here?
