NICK GILLESPIE: Sen. Kent Conrad, Senate Dems Punt on Producing Budget Because GOP is Obstructionist, Needs Document to Vote On. “Conrad is officially retiring at the end of his current term, which expires early next year. But if we define active employment as, you know, doing your basic job function (such as passing a budget resolution), then he’s been off the clock for at least the past three years. He’s the king of legislative vaporware, constantly signaling that he’s about to release some big plan than never seems to make it out the door so that it can actually be discussed in the light of day. . . . Cue the Washington Post’s Ezra Klein, who is as good a pal as Kent Conrad will ever have in the press.”