re: #9 Targetpractice

It’s an election-year ballroom blitz, a last-ditch effort to cram this shit through before the voters to the polls in November and defang the Republican majorities they put into place in ‘10 on the insistence that they would be all about “jobs.”

That seems like the best guess, yes. I just thought they might take a bit more time in an attempt to consolidate power a bit more or something. Take strong, but less obvious actions.