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well, I applaud Dana Milbank for stepping out of the bubble and calling it like it is.
Apparently the Senate is just a hothouse of mismanagement and chaos....and, inho this is simply because they are boxed in and they know it, so they will do nothing but scream mediscare, its all they got....
I asked in a thread a few weeks ago;
Wheres the Plans Mr. President?
Dick Durbin: Social Security could kill budget deal - Meredith Shiner - POLITICO.com
Will Democrats agree to cut Social Security? - Yahoo! News
Coburn Quits Gang of Six Budget Talks - Yahoo! News
this Friday the May job report is due from the BLS and its apparently going to be atrocious. Humm, maybe another campaign stop will help.......
Congress clocks in to clock out
At 10 a.m. Tuesday morning, the Senate came to order. Forty-one seconds later, it adjourned.
During this legislative session, there was no bill under consideration, no debate on the floor, not even an opening prayer or a pledge of allegiance. The only senator in the chamber was Mark Warner (D-Va.), the presiding officer.
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The Senate is supposed to be in Memorial Day recess this week. But the chamber is so ungovernable that Majority Leader Harry Reid doesnt even have the votes to declare a recess. So he decided instead to have a few pro forma sessions, such as Tuesdays, allowing senators to take a vacation without voting for it.
In a sense, the Senate has been in a pro-forma session all year Although theres general agreement that the most pressing issue facing the federal government is its runaway finances, the Democrat-controlled Senate hasnt passed a budget in 762 days, a new standard for dereliction of duty.
It is just the sort of thing that offends Americans about Washington: The triumph of tactical advantage over the national interest. Democrats were understandably embarrassed about voting themselves a vacation so soon after abandoning their budget responsibilities. So when Sen. Jeff Sessions (Ala.), the top Republican on the budget committee, demanded a roll-call vote on the recess, Reid used the pro forma loophole.
Congress clocks in to clock out - The Washington Post
Apparently the Senate is just a hothouse of mismanagement and chaos....and, inho this is simply because they are boxed in and they know it, so they will do nothing but scream mediscare, its all they got....
I asked in a thread a few weeks ago;
Wheres the Plans Mr. President?
Dick Durbin: Social Security could kill budget deal - Meredith Shiner - POLITICO.com
Will Democrats agree to cut Social Security? - Yahoo! News
Coburn Quits Gang of Six Budget Talks - Yahoo! News
this Friday the May job report is due from the BLS and its apparently going to be atrocious. Humm, maybe another campaign stop will help.......
Congress clocks in to clock out
At 10 a.m. Tuesday morning, the Senate came to order. Forty-one seconds later, it adjourned.
During this legislative session, there was no bill under consideration, no debate on the floor, not even an opening prayer or a pledge of allegiance. The only senator in the chamber was Mark Warner (D-Va.), the presiding officer.
snip-
The Senate is supposed to be in Memorial Day recess this week. But the chamber is so ungovernable that Majority Leader Harry Reid doesnt even have the votes to declare a recess. So he decided instead to have a few pro forma sessions, such as Tuesdays, allowing senators to take a vacation without voting for it.
In a sense, the Senate has been in a pro-forma session all year Although theres general agreement that the most pressing issue facing the federal government is its runaway finances, the Democrat-controlled Senate hasnt passed a budget in 762 days, a new standard for dereliction of duty.
It is just the sort of thing that offends Americans about Washington: The triumph of tactical advantage over the national interest. Democrats were understandably embarrassed about voting themselves a vacation so soon after abandoning their budget responsibilities. So when Sen. Jeff Sessions (Ala.), the top Republican on the budget committee, demanded a roll-call vote on the recess, Reid used the pro forma loophole.
Congress clocks in to clock out - The Washington Post