I heard Senator Thune on Imus in the Morning yesterday. He was mouthing off about how the Senate was trying to push bills out in the last days of the lame duck session when they had "all this time" to do the nation's work.
Aside from nearly driving my car into a tree, it occurred to me that the Republican continual filibuster of legislation now shows a backlog of just about 400 bills passed by the House that have never even come up for debate. The Senate rush to pass is the Republicans' fault for simply not doing anything for 2 years. Why are we paying these guys? Why do they deserve any salary whatsoever?
I'm serious here. If you have an employee - and these guys are employees of OURS - who refuses to consider the work handed him, he would be fired. At the very least he wouldn't be paid.
I can understand politics and the Republican desire to mess up anything the democrats want to do but let me remind everyone that the 40+ Senators, like Senator Thune, who refuse to work represent about 20% of the population of the United States and this absolute minority has stopped the business cold. This is unionism in its worst form.
They would rather sink the country than work. - oh and by the way, the same Senator Thune also inserted 32 "earmarks" in the latest budget bill - the same guy who vowed to oppose any bill with earmarks. Just so you know.
Hypocrisy must grow on these guys like mold.