Let’s get this straight…senators do nothing but bloviate. They don’t “set up” OSHA or “enable” healthcare for poor families or “create” the Americans for Disabilities Act. Other people--usually in some existing bureaucracy in the administration--do the heavy lifting and actually implement these orders handed down from Capitol Hill. Senators sit on useless subcommittees, shout orders at their staffs, patronize witnesses who are dragged in front of their feckless Senate subcommittees, play to the camera to look like “they’re doing something for the American people” following whatever is the latest financial scandal or military fiasco (usually a scandal or fiasco in which they had a hand in facilitating via their vote of approval), appear on “Meet the Press” to sound erudite and, well, senatorial, all in an effort to bide their time to become president one day.
One thing senators do do well is deplete the Treasury of the greatest wealth ever created by past and current generations of Americans in a short 40 year-period and take out a $100 trillion mortgage for future generations to pay. Oh yeah, Kennedy was a senator all that time.
Aug. 26 2009 11:44 AM
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mc
from Brooklyn
Nancy: What is "real" reform?
Aug. 26 2009 11:37 AM
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Nancy
from NYC
RALLY for health care reform this Saturday at 2 pm, Times Square. Speakers to include Reps. Rangel and Maloney. Please come out and raise your voice for real reform.
Aug. 26 2009 11:19 AM
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Let’s get this straight…senators do nothing but bloviate. They don’t “set up” OSHA or “enable” healthcare for poor families or “create” the Americans for Disabilities Act. Other people--usually in some existing bureaucracy in the administration--do the heavy lifting and actually implement these orders handed down from Capitol Hill. Senators sit on useless subcommittees, shout orders at their staffs, patronize witnesses who are dragged in front of their feckless Senate subcommittees, play to the camera to look like “they’re doing something for the American people” following whatever is the latest financial scandal or military fiasco (usually a scandal or fiasco in which they had a hand in facilitating via their vote of approval), appear on “Meet the Press” to sound erudite and, well, senatorial, all in an effort to bide their time to become president one day.
One thing senators do do well is deplete the Treasury of the greatest wealth ever created by past and current generations of Americans in a short 40 year-period and take out a $100 trillion mortgage for future generations to pay. Oh yeah, Kennedy was a senator all that time.
Nancy: What is "real" reform?
RALLY for health care reform this Saturday at 2 pm, Times Square. Speakers to include Reps. Rangel and Maloney. Please come out and raise your voice for real reform.
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