Waaah! Snowe & Collins criticize Reid

The Portland Press Herald reports that Senators Snowe and Collins are upset by Reid's parliamentary move:

"It is a regrettable commentary on the state of affairs in Washington that the minority has hijacked and diverted the Senate from consideration of the Budget Reconciliation Act with no forewarning and no consultation, impeding our ability to complete our critical work," said Sen. Olympia Snowe, a member of the Intelligence Committee.

"The Senate could have come together in an orderly fashion to address the issues raised by the minority through a deliberative process working with Senate leadership," she said.

I thought this deserved a letter to the editor.

...so I wrote one.

To the editor:

Senators Snowe and Collins criticize Reid's closed-session move Tuesday as partisan, theatrical, diversionary and - horrors! - disorderly. (Portland Press Herald, November 2, 2005.) Says Snowe:

"The Senate could have come together in an orderly fashion to address the issues raised by the minority through a deliberative process working with Senate leadership."

Well, yes. They could have. In an alternate universe, that is, in which George W. Bush was still a failed businessman in Texas, Dr. Frist was still killing cats back in Tennessee, and a responsible Congress remembered to look out for the American people they're supposed to represent. In this universe, however, we have a one-party government drunk with power and mired in corruption, cronyism, smear campaigns, coverups, and stonewalling.

By calling a dishonest body to account, Senator Reid won a victory for all Americans. The senators from Maine need to think more carefully about whom they represent - is it George Bush or is it the people of Maine?  

Sincerely,

The Press Herald generally prints about every third letter I write. I'm not due at the moment, so I'm printing here instead.