How on earth can you miss as important a vote as the vote on the debt ceiling? Apparently by going back to your office in between votes, and not allowing time to get through the hordes of people (through whom you would have already passed once to get to your office) and back to the chamber. Rep. Moore has long been a thorn in our side; one can only hope when her reelection comes around, she will be out of a job.
The Democrats - or more specifically, the President - got out of this fight the thing most important to them: there will not be need to fight over raising the ceiling again until after the 2012 election.
Politics is more and more about being reelected more than it is about governing the nation. Can we pass an amendment limiting all positions to just one term? That would at least help the politicians focus on the work in front of them instead of their polling numbers. The argument against a single term limit, I suppose, is that constantly changing representation is disrupting, slowing down or completely stalling the work of the government.
But would that really be any more disruptive than what we currently have?
A pox on all of them.
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