Republicans predictably filibustered, claiming that the estimated $47 billion it will raise in the next decade is a drop in the bucket. “That wouldn’t pay for half a day’s work on the secret reanimate Ronald Reagan project,” Stewart mocked.
But point taken, he added. Then again, didn’t Republicans say $300 million was an awful lot to spend on Planned Parenthood? “Let me get this straight,” Stewart said. “$47 billion in millionaires’ money is less than $300 million in mammograms and birth control.”"
Stewart is one of the few in the media who actually remembers what politicians say a few weeks or months before. I wish the average newspaper article would do so. James Fallows is happy that some of them can manage to report on a filibuster properly. Ezra Klein and Paul Krugman remember stuff. It's one of the reasons I like reading them. Rachel Maddow goes perhaps too far, where she mike cover a story every night in a week and each night has a recap of the past 4 years. But I'm surprised the PBS NewsHour isn't better at it.
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