[ncountylee]

Senator Patty Murray or Barbara Boxer can't decide who is dumber.

[PhiKapMom]

We need some more Dr. Tom's in the US Senate. I am really proud of my Senator for standing up and for some of the others like George Allen for standing with him.

[Ken H]

Somebody test the Senate drinking water! You got Durbin going off the deep end, Voinovitch crying like a girl about a UN appointment, now Stevens is melting down.

[backhoe]

The ignorance of Senator Patty Murray
various FR links & stories | 01-17-05 | the heavy equipment guy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1322282/posts

[taxesareforever]

Stretchers not needed. Baskets will do since many are already basket cases.

[Rumple4]

Nice to see DeWine on the list, will kind of make voting for him in 2006 a little easier to do.

[kcvl]

Apparently, as they've threatened, we won't get any progress until men like Stevens and women like Murray are indeed carried out of the Senate on stretchers. Or, less drastically, their near-eternal terms are cut short by term limits.

Our politicians may want, on some level, to balance budgets and even cut spending. But, in every instance where it counts, the overwhelming majority of them support unlimited government growth. Why? Because that's the nature of the system. Because that's what benefits them. Because once in office they begin to see themselves not as our fellow citizens but as the government.

What a muddle, what a mess. Still, we should blame it on them — though not, of course, on Coburn's Dozen.

[Bon mots]

When I saw the headline "Stretchers ready at the Senate..."

I immediately thought that either Ted Kennedy bought a new oldsmobile, or Hillary took someone for a walk in the park.