Mass Exodus

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-interior16-2008dec16,0,1401718.story

People seem to be fleeing the Senate - Ken Salazar is the latest refugee. I thought the Senate was an august body that was aspired too, and that once entered, one never left. It seems that some doddering Senators have been there forever, and no matter how horrible they linger on, witness Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms, etc. But I guess since the only thing that seems to go on in the Senate these days is a big nothing, it must be a discouraging place to be. Harry Reid seems incapable of holding the repugs feet to the fire. I don't think that most of the public know that all the Republicans do is obstruct, obstruct, obstruct. I think the Repugs would cool their jets if they actually had to filibuster everything bill they want to stop. I think the emphasis on the sixty seat super majority in some way has given the Republicans in the Senate liscence to do whatever they want. Why should it take sixty senators to get anything done?