Yanno, it really does seem like the senate is broken.

[Stinky The Clown]

First it was a lock step party of Nyet.

Now all it takes is one senile old coot from a smaller state, who is himself a pariah and outcast in his own party of Nyet, to literally shut down a part of our national government.

The filly buster is chump shit compared to the ability of one man to stop the government from functioning, cut off citizens of any states from unemployment benefits and force doctors to take less or refuse to treat medicaid patients.

This post is not about Jim Bunning. It is about the broken senate and our feckless leadership thereof.

[my2sense]

1. And to think we

"say" we want to spread our brand of "democracy" to other nations because we know what we are doing. ::shaking my head::

It seems there should be some provision to have this idiot declared "unfit" or something. This is utterly ridiculous.

[depakid]

3. With two historical exceptions, no other nation uses America's dysfunctional model of government

Though it should be said that the American constitution neither granted nor condoned the Senates usurpation of power by the few. The Senate took that on its own, without regard to constitutional intent.

[Canuckistanian]

2. I think it's finally imploded

Under the weight of arcane rules that nobody remembers the original reason for.

And yet, there seems to be no impetus to change them.

[defendandprotect]

4. That's the purpose of corporatism . .. to break democracy . .