The Senate continued work on the Keystone XL Pipeline bill on Thursday, voting on 10 amendments.

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After finishing the votes on those amendments in the evening, another dozen were offered, six Republican and six Democratic. Majority Leader McConnell wanted to vote Thursday night on those pending amendments, Assistant Minority Leader Durbin asked that the votes occur on Friday as Democrats wanted more time to consider the content of the amendments. Sen. McConnell resisted and moved to table each of the pending Democratic amendments. After successfully tabling 5 of 6 Democratic amendments Sen. McConnell offered a unanimous consent agreement to vote on the six GOP amendments and one remaining Democratic amendment on Friday. Clearly irritated by this maneuver Democrats objected. In the end Sen. McConnell put off votes until Monday at 5:30 p.m. Watch the complete Senate session here: http://cs.pn/1uoEpya

[madamesilverspurs]

1. McConnell

went into full asshole mode and clearly didn't care who knew it. As he successively tabled their amendments he refused to allow comment from the authors. Markey, Carper, Whitehouse, and Leahy were among those he silenced.

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2. Yes he did.

Too damn bad Dems don't do all the asshole crap repugs do by nature. Sad to say our culture is damaged seeing this, the a**holes setting examples: How to Bully. REALLY bugs me.

[Newest Reality]

3. Any consumer

might agree that you should receive what you pay for.

The Koch Brothers are consumers of political results and good, predatory capitalists. They have invested good money and time into getting some crude crud delivered to them and they deserve the results they paid for.

Of course, in a good, consumerist manner, it is up to those politicians that have been paid for to follow through with delivering the goods and as soon as possible.

Since we common folks don't have the money to pay for the services of government in that way, we either support it too and be silent, or utilize other means to stop this paid for favoritism, or to transform government and the politicians who execute the functions of it back into civil servants rather than facilitators of wealth catering to the highest bidder.