Ahem...Rome IS Burning...

I’m SO glad that a little old-fashioned bipartisan cooperation has short-circuited the "Nuclear Option," for the time being. Now I won’t have to write the entry I’ve been stewing over for the last several days. I was revving up to blast BOTH parties for engaging in a gratuitous political pissing contest, while the business of government fell by the wayside.

Due to the Herculean efforts of what the press, in their infinite quest to exploit partisan differences, almost inaudibly refer to as "moderates," the senate can resume business as usual. Perhaps they can start to address issues that really matter to the American people, like energy prices, health care costs, the exodus of American jobs to Asian markets… On second thought, I fully expect they’ll take up some other non-issue, so that they can continue fiddling while Rome burns…