It keeps occurring to me to wonder what the national reaction would have been had the Republicans fled Washington DC to avoid voting on ObamaCare.
That was legislation nobody wanted, and you know damn well that the media and the Democrats would have gone absolutely apoplectic.
Is this now to be "the new filibuster"? Are we to expect that from this point forward, a minority in any legislative body that is about to be overrun by the majority can flee as a legitimate tactic? Our system of civil government cannot function with this component as a viable option, especially if it is only an option for one of two parties.
It must be made a felony.