Packer begins: "'This is just one of those days when you want to throw up your hands and say, 'What in the world are we doing?' Senator Claire McCaskill, the Missouri Democrat, said. 'It's unconscionable,' Carl Levin, the senior Democratic senator from Michigan, said. 'The obstructionism has become mindless.'"
Caricature Senators in debate, 08/09/10. (art: Steve Brodner/The New Yorker)
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Instead of solving problems they are squabling and obstructing. The republicans have lifted that into an art.
They don't give a damn that the country is fast going to hell and people are loosing their homes along with their lives, and they may never make up what they lost.
They woulden't even extend unemployment insurance. They are monsters.
The middle class is sinking into despair. And you can bet that we will see more people loose it and shoot innocent people.
Everybody harps on the democrats because of the problems we have. But the republicans are the ones hellbent on destroying the country in order to bring Obama down. Their hatred is sickening.
A grass roots effort that would deny seats to these miscreants and a public national vote to reduce their paycheck, tenure and influence of lobbyists is the only way I can see of curing this national plaque. Time to get off the stump and do some farming, that means weed out the bad and grow some good.
We need some rules of deportment for these over-the-hill frat boys, the sooner the better! For every one of them, this is their "extra" job. Their various business investments are obviously their main concern.
Americans, start picking your own representatives and bypass these tarted-up trollops! To hell with both the soiled political parties supported by criminals.
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