Train Wreck Senate
Today the US Senate passed the Omnibus Wilderness bill by a vote of 77 to 20. Over 100 bills that designated more than 2 million acres in nine states as protected wilderness had been attached to H.R. 146 “The Revolutionary War and War of 1812 Battlefield Protection Act” in a parliamentary maneuver to avoid hearings.
Seventy-seven Senators decided that holding hearings on bills was a bad idea. They prefer not to hold hearings, not to listen to testimony, and not to consult with the American people.
As a matter of fact, US Senators rarely even read the bills they vote on, and certainly did not in this case, just as they never read the TARP bailout bill they are so exercised about today.
The method they follow is to vote now, read it later, and then feign shock and indignation at what the law is, as if they had nothing to do with it.
Our current crop of US Senators are functionally illiterate, ignorant, and exceedingly offensive to one and all, with the exception of deep-pocket, Washington insider, special interests that play them like banjos.
The outcome of today’s Farce Theater will be catastrophic holocaust, suffering, and death of forests across the West. But since this country is going down the tubes in train wreck fashion anyway, chances are that few will even notice.
