https://packbat.dreamwidth.org/ The Packbats' Weblog - Dreamwidth Studios Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:47:46 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios packbat personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/17127286/244784 https://packbat.dreamwidth.org/ 100 100 https://packbat.dreamwidth.org/282263.html Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:47:46 GMT https://packbat.dreamwidth.org/282263.html Hat-tip to <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://circuit-four.livejournal.com/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif' alt='[livejournal.com profile] ' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' width='17' height='17'/></a><a href='http://circuit-four.livejournal.com/'><b>circuit_four</b></a></span> <a href="http://circuit-four.livejournal.com/969654.html">here</a>: <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/24/gop-senators-refusing-to_n_511639.html">HuffPost: GOP Senators Refusing To Work Past 2PM, Invoking Obscure Rule</a>.<br /><br />...two things.<br /><br />One: Key Republican Senators apparently (a) don't care about doing their job, and (b) believe the Democratic Senators <em>do</em>, and therefore (c) are willing to enforce a work stoppage to make the Democrats do what they want. <em>This does not reflect well on the Republicans.</em> The first metaphor that comes to mind is if a police department decided to blockade the fire station in order to get their 'support' for changes to the city budget.<br /><br />Two: How <em>stupid</em> are the Senate rules, anyway? You can't make Senators actually filibuster, you can't make Senators actually work more than two hours a day ... this is <em>not how governance happens</em>.<br /><br />Politics is an important, valuable activity - but <em>this ain't</em>.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=packbat&ditemid=282263" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://packbat.dreamwidth.org/282263.html united states politics representatives read time: 10 seconds link time: few minutes "Trust Me" - Janis Joplin, Full Tilt Boogie contemptuous public 0