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Heavy-Handed Politics

"€œGod willing, with the force of God behind it, we shall soon experience a world
without the United States and Zionism."€ -- Iran President Ahmadi-Nejad

Monday, July 02, 2007

What I Learned in Senate School This Week

By Michael McBride

"As I have written before, politics is no longer about good legislation, it is about politicking. Our DC based legislative processes have evolved into a frenetic, self-absorbed, narcissistic tango of Beltway ricocheting that produces products not designed to yield a better functioning country; but designed only to preserve the contact between ours legislators’ abundant behinds and their opulent leather chairs.

And nothing could make that plainer than the wandering, and eventually fruitless machinations that will forever be the hallmark of the Kennedy-McCain Immigration bill. In the fallout of the debacle that was, lie some important lessons for the week." Read on.

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