Photography with the Left Eye

Our democracy is in peril. And I actually think that is true. The ‘publican party seems to have one, and only one policy goal. Opposing anything initiated by Obama.

You know about the melodrama of the health care debate. And the whining about actually passing climate legislation (Lisa Murkowski tries to stop it even as her state starts to thaw and sink).

But there are the more hidden ones. Remember the ‘publican slogans asking members of Congress to give a “thumbs up or thumbs down vote” (on Bush nominees? Those crafty ‘publicans. Times have changed, and that is old thinking (I guess). How else to account for the fact that Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL) has put an extraordinary “blanket hold” on at least 70 nominations President Obama has sent to the Senate. Idiots.

Ara