Who does Congress really represent?

If you don't have much money, forget you.

Blocking background checks

Considering a NEW control

Elizabeth Warren for President

Obstructionists

The Republicans at work - they must be SO proud...

Who were the winners?

From Acerbic Politics

Well said, Chez

Once upon a time, the Senate was a shining beacon of at least semi-intelligent discourse -- living, breathing, debating proof of the success of America's experiment in democracy. It was Rome, when Rome was in its heyday. These days it's more like Rome right before the fall of the empire -- brimming with arrogance, stupidity, influence-peddling and near-constant partisan hackery, and overrun by self-serving clowns drunk on their own grandiose sense of importance and always on the lookout for the next illicit sexual encounter.

~ Chez Pazienza

Did You Know - Dysfunctional Senate

The Senate has become dysfunctional. Will the Democrats win enough seats in 2008 to have the 60 votes needed to shut down the filibustering Republicans?

Nearly 1 in 6 roll-call votes in the Senate this year have been cloture votes. If this pace of blocking legislation continues, this 110th Congress will be on track to roughly triple the previous record number of cloture votes — 58 each in the two Congresses from 1999-2002, according to the Senate Historical Office.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., forced an all-night session on the Iraq war this week to draw attention to what Democrats called Republican obstruction.

"The minority party has decided we have to get to 60 votes on almost everything we vote on of substance," said Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo. "That's not the way this place is supposed to work."

Even Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., who's served in Congress since 1973, complained that "the Senate is spiraling into the ground to a degree that I have never seen before, and I've been here a long time. All modicum of courtesy is going out the window."

From McClatchy.