The senate is disappointing

So I got down on my knees and crawled into the Idaho Republican senator’s office whom I had been pestering for years with emails about what a lousy job he was doing and why wasn’t he following my sage advice on the economy, taxes, health care and veterans rights. It was truly humbling, but at least the marble floor was smooth and clean. For my penance I received two free passes to the senate gallery.



Suzy and I anxiously left the building and headed for the senate chambers. Visions of lawmaking dancing in our heads. After going through all but full body search, we were finally admitted to the chambers of the senate by the “Senate Nazi”. This woman, in her fifties with a butch haircut and expensive suit, would make the Seinfield Soup Nazi look like a Walmart greeter. She was ruthless, and we sat in huddled fear as she policed us in our seats, admonishing one fellow for reading a map.



But now for the main show, our government in action. A senator from West Virginia was reading nomination for a district court judge to the empty senate chambers. Yes, empty like he was the only senator there. Maybe the rest were watching on cspan. Anyway, when he finished a democratic senator from Maryland entered and spent 15 minutes complaining that the republicans were not letting enough district and federal judges be nominated. He was followed by a republican senator from Alabama who spent his 15 minutes arguing that the republicans were doing better under President Obama then the democrats did under President Bush.



Yes, with all the pressing problems in our country, like health care, job loss, homelessness, the economy, etc, etc, our senators were devoting their time to arguing like children about what the other had done to them. I just hope we caught them in the one thirty minute period of the month when they paused to point fingers and as soon as we left they went back to the pressing problems of our country. Am I naïve or what?