Stymied

I read with interest Senator Evan Bayh’s editorial in the Sunday Opinion page of The New York Times. (www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/opinion/21bayh.html) Senator Bayh is The Democratic senator from Indiana and son of former senator Birch Bayh. He recently announced that he would be leaving the Senate citing dissatisfaction with the gridlock and the partisan politics of the legislative body. He found it frustrating. I can only imagine how frustrating the American people must be hearing that.  The government has ceased to operate.  Since the election, 290 measures have been sent from the House to the Senate requiring further action and none of them was acted upon.

If a foreign power or Al Qaeda somehow infiltrated the Senate and caused that sort of halt to the governing process, all hell would break loose.  Or I would assume all hell would break loose.  Unless of course, it was Super Bowl Sunday or Tiger Woods was going to speak. You know, something important.