Reid: pledges to support good government -- McConnell: pledges to support warrantless wiretapping

[quiet.american]

Anyone else watching the opening Senate speeches today from Majority Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell?

Harry Reid gave an excellent speech focusing on the Senate getting out of the business of bad politics and into the business of good government to address major issues such as a livable wage, reducing education costs, reducing healthcare costs, pursuing stem cell research and addressing global warming.

Mitch McConnell started out well, talking about how partisanship over the last several years had stalled the duties of the Senate, and for once, he did so in a way that did not imply the partisanship was purely on the part of the Democrats. But then, came the old GOP talking points: he glossed over 9/11 and the GOP's coverups and absolute lack of investigation into it to essentially crow that no attacks have taken place since then because we're fighting them over there so that we don't have to fight them here, and on that note he gives his full support to Bush's illegal wiretapping program, which he refers to as the johnny-come-lately term "Terrorist Survellance Act," and also he throws his full support behind those industries responsible for the most amount of pollution and global warming -- the coal industry being the first.

No surprises, granted, but I stopped listening at this point. When I hear speeches like this, I cannot decide whether the speaker is stupid, or just corrupt. I suppose it's possible to be both.

[Selteri]

1. Agreed, I flipped over to the house ceremony

I'm watching boner eat crow.

[Bitwit1234]

2. Well you heard Boehner come up with

bush's buzz word...."We have to make sacrifices"...Betcha all the cons will start parading that word around, along, with their brothers-in-arms the media.