Your Congress at Work

I've been out all day at the Rail Festival and will have photos and a couple of videos coming your way later tonight, but for now let me give you this piece from Ace of Spades regarding the goings-on in the Congress:

Just a quick roundup of what our putative representatives in the legislative branch are up to.
First, GOP Senator Lindsey Graham has withdrawn his support from the Democratic global warming bill. No, he didn't recant his unscientific alarmist stance, nor did he take a principled position that carbon taxes are bad for businesses and children and other living things. He just threw a tanty because Democrats are vowing to push the comprehensive immigration piece of shit first. Senate Democrats have cancelled the global warming bill rollout tomorrow.
Second, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told Fox News Sunday that he and 40 of his best pals will prevent the Democratic permanent bailout bill from reaching a floor vote on Monday. Senator Chris Dodd (how in the world is this fellow the guy Dems tapped to push bank reform?!?) says they don't have any GOP votes...yet.
Third, GOP Senator Saxby Chambliss, told CNN's "State of the Union" this morning that Dick Cheney's advice to Charlie Crist to either stick with the GOP or drop out of the race was "not helpful" to Republicans. "You jump on one side or the other in these races and that's probably what happened," he said. "It's certainly stepped up the rhetoric." I guess Chambliss was uncomfortable with Cheney pushing the Republican side of this race. Chambliss has fundraised for Crist in the past.
Fourth, Democrats will unveil this week a response to the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, which upheld the right of individuals working in groups (aka "corporations") to make political speech. The Democratic bill, described here, is blatantly unconstitutional in its speech restrictions.

Graham was apparently upset that the Dems were going to use the immigration bill to try and cause problems for Republicans in the midterm election. Hispanics turned out in large numbers for Obama, but have been abandoning him in equally large numbers since then. In addition, Nevada has lots of Hispanic voters that Harry Reid needs to win re-election, so a little pandering on his part is needed to try and save his job. I'm glad Graham is backing away from the cap-and-tax bill, but won't be happy until he gives up that stupid thing altogether.