November 01, 2005

The Spectacle in the Senate

Egalia of TN Guerilla Women is joyous over the closing of the Senate chamber and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid's efforts to keep closing the Senate until his questions are answered regarding the Iraq war. She apparently sees it as a good thing for the Democrat party. I'm not so sure that's the case. I think that The Monroe Doctrine blog has a more realistic perspective on the matter. In fact, no one was a winner today, but the ones who really lost were the American people.

Personally, I feel that the common American who doesn't pay as much attention to politics really doesn't care. In fact, they are probably getting tired of both parties. The Republicans are facing problems pleasing their base (I think Bush semi-fixed this by nominating Alito), have issues with indictments and are spending like drunken carnies. The Democrats, on the other hand, can't offer anything better other than creating some spectacle in the Senate to make themselves look like those pre-pubescent children you always see in the background of live news reports waving at the camera and making faces to try to draw attention to themselves.

Earlier today Egalia was predicting the death of the Republican party, but if that's the case then it looks like she should be writing an epitaph for her own party as well.

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"In fact, they are probably getting tired of both parties."

Add to them the national media (aka MSM) and you've got a trinity of disdain.

Posted by: joe public at November 1, 2005 09:59 PM

Perhaps an epitaph for both parties might be a good thing at this point. Let's face it, it's pretty hard to tell the difference (sometimes) with the parties, and neither party is doing a particularly great job.

Posted by: Sharon at November 1, 2005 11:56 PM