Rahm Emanuel:”I have come to the conclusion that the Senate was a historic mistake,”
Maybe this senate, but I am sure that is not what he means:
As if there was any doubt that Congress was on the verge of devolving into a carnival atmosphere, Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democratic majority leader, on Thursday proposed doing cartwheels down the center aisle of the Senate chamber to draw attention to Republican efforts to block legislation.
Here, in the Cirque du Senate, there is trash-talking, whining and finger-pointing, bickering and, occasionally, brief flashes of serious disagreement on policy.
But with the clock ticking swiftly toward the end of the year and a stack of stalled legislation piling up, little is getting done in the Senate these days. And tempers are starting to boil over.
Mr. Reid, who turned 68 on Sunday and power-walks four miles a day, ultimately did not perform any gymnastics. But his fury over the inability to move the Democrats’ legislative agenda seemed to have deepened since Tuesday, when he accused President Bush of “pulling the strings on the 49 puppets he has here in the Senate.”
I’m sure this is a joke, but pair it up with other Democrat dreams of Constitutional overhauls and it’s fair to wonder if the Democrats don’t see the Constitution itself as a historic mistake. Liberals certainly spend a great deal of time militating against the Constitution’s plain language.
December 10, 2007 - 07:12 AM on December 10th, 2007
Harry Reid is the Senate’s equivalent to a Monica!