Tactics

Now I hear that Senate Republicans will not filibuster Harry Reid's gun control bill... in order to make Democratic Senators go on record as for or against... in the hopes that their records will hurt a bunch of them in the 2014 elections.

I gather that the bill can't pass the Republican-held House, anyway, so this is all a sort of show-and-tell exercise.

I fear our political class
taken as a mass
does too much show-and-tell,
and not especially well.