Posted on 12/22/2009 8:26:54 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
ABC News Z. Byron Wolf reports: The Senate has been in session every day in December and a final health reform vote is set for Christmas Eve.
But with the Republicans filibuster of the health reform bill broken and both parties winding down the clock the debate on the Senate floor is getting loopy.
Case in point -- Sen. Roland Burris, the Illinois Democrat who was controversially appointed to Barack Obama's Senate seat, set the debate as he sees it to rhyme -- specifically 'The Night Before Christmas' and read it on the Senate floor.
It should be noted that Burris went back on a pledge to oppose any bill that lacked a public option to help Democrats break the Republican filibuster of their health reform bill. But that did not keep him today from rhyming 'raucous' with 'caucus.'
And there’s more:
“And then in a twinkle I heard under the dome, the roll call was closed and it was time to go home.” “Despite the obstructionist tactics of some, the filibuster had broken, the people had won.
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