Did you happen to catch the Rachel Maddow show last night?
If you didn't, she was talking about her new term "The Tarrentino" she refers to regarding the filibuster. She is on a mission to help change the filibuster the Republicans use every day to "Kill Bills".
She discussed how the Senate is sitting on 290 bills already passed by House
with bi-partisan support that are being killed by the Senate republican's abusive tactics of filbustering ALL bills Democrats have voted yes on. It does not matter that Republicans voted yes as well. They are bent on mass destruction of America for the sake of party loyalty.
Here is a link to the list of the 290 bills being killed:
The 290 Bills That Have Been Passed by the House & Not Yet Acted Upon By the Senate, as of 2/12/10
http://thehill.com/...
It is astounding to read how many bills are left hanging out there.
In an ideal world, those representing the masses would be the best and the brightest so they could lead our country with a vision towards a better future for all of us. But, in our world we don't have those kind of people at the top of the heap right now. Instead, we have a collection of underhanded and unscrupulous Senators and Congress-people controlling our lives. At both the state and national level.
Polls repeatedly show that the majority in this country wants health care reform, and they want it to include something either like the public option, or Medicare for all. We want Finance Reform. We want something to be done in DC to help us out. But, that is not happening with Republicans able to filibuster every bill that comes along and killing progress.
They should be embarrassed by their bad behavior because they are the party of opposition to anything that the Democrats vote for. It is easier for them to press the NO button than to do any critical thinking about what they are actually voting on.
As long as they oppose everything that the Democrats want to do, no matter what it is, they don't have to waste any of their time reading the bills. They don't have to think very hard about what a NO vote means to their constituents lives. They don't have to ponder how denying health care reform to people is going to hurt this country in the long run. When they merely vote NO for everything just to oppose the Democrats, they don't have to work very hard to collect their big fat paychecks and their great perks like Government run health care they are denying the rest of us.
The Republican Senators are shiftless slackers who don't earn their pay as they continue to live on easy street at the expense of tax-payers. The Blue-Dog Democrats who used bribery for a YES vote are equally despicable. They are a bunch of mindless hypocritical sheep.
We are in deep trouble with them in charge.