Leaders considering bringing the Senate back early from recess vacation to debate striking Syria

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Happening now: Leaders considering bringing the Senate back early from recess vacation to debate striking Syria, per one leadership aide.

[randome]

1. You have to kick them in their lazy asses to get them to do their jobs!

Congress is the laziest institution on the planet! Republicans are the worst of the lot, wasting time and money voting to defund health care dozens of times.

What lunacy!
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font][hr]

[valerief]

2. Has Terry Schiavo risen from the dead? nt

[KittyWampus]

3. I'd forgotten that.

[jsr]

8. Bombing Syria is our #1 national priority.

It must be done posthaste. Our survival depends on it.

[valerief]

10. Yes, because when a large number of people are murdered, another large number of people

must be murdered.

I'll never understand this.

A week or so ago, I saw a clip on DU of a discussion between Jeremy Scahill and Noam Chomsky. I think it was Chomsky who said some general told him Laos was bombed during the Vietnam conflict, because the military wasn't allowed to bomb where they wanted (can't remember where; probably Vietnam). The general said the military decided, "Well, we have the bombs. We might as well use them."

You need war to justify the outrageous military budget.

[Matariki]

4. Because interrupting vacation for something as serious as war needs 'considering'

[Cleita]

5. So they should. They have been out for a longer

time than we should be paying their salaries and perks for.

[KittyWampus]

6. When did perqs become perks… silly questions I can't help ask. I know perks is common usage now.

But i wonder when it changed.

[Cleita]

7. I too come from an era when some spelling was different

and then got simplified. I try to use the most current if I remember to.

[KittyWampus]

9. Xerox.