Lazy Senators

I’ve been focusing most of my short-term ire on House Democrats who are too chicken to pass health care, and keeping my Senate-related ire more on the long-term picture where their months of senseless delaying got us stuck in this pickle. But Ezra Klein notes that Senators are also doing short-term damage for the nominal reason that they’re too lazy “to spend three weeks on some other bill” of amendments to their legislation in order to bring some House members on board.

I was in the Russell Building* yesterday and kind of wanted to run around the halls grabbing Democratic staffers and yelling at them, like Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2, “you’re already dead! Everybody dies!”

* It’s staggering that we live in a country that honors a man whose main legacy was his “moderate” method of advocating white supremacy.