Stating the obvious

A front page headline in today’s New York Times read “Filibuster Fight Bruises the Image of Capitol Hill”. I didn’t know that the image of our elected government could be any lower. Instead of trying to address the challenges facing us – such as Iraq, China, Afghanistan, North Korea, Iran, the deficits, our lousy educational system, the fantastic rise in our prison population and on and on and on – they waste their time on things that are really not very important – the Schiavo case, 10 words in Newsweek, gay marriage, and now the question of the century: should Senate rules be changed

I guess the media thinks we are having some slow news days. Heck, the Scott Peterson trial is over, the Runaway Bride is back home, things are slow at the Jackson trial. Now what could be more important than the brouhaha over the possible change in Senate rules to kill the filibuster? That’s why it’s hard to avoid hearing some very concerned Senator inveighing on one or the other side of the question of how they can best waste time.

Our elected leaders should start earning their bread by at least acknowledging that we have some real problems. If they really wanted to actually get work done, they could resolve this controversy in a couple of hours. PBU21