Once upon a time in America there was a bill...

and the story of that bill was told in car­toon form…

In those mag­i­cal days con­gress worked in the fol­low­ing ways.

The House would pass a bill.

If the sen­ate didn’t like the house bill they would pass a bill of their own.

And then the two bills would go to a con­fer­ence com­mit­tee and the details worked out.

And then when both sides had passed bills they would work out the differences.

Now things have changed:

The House has passed a bud­get, the house has passed a tax bill, they have passed bills tack­ling the big issues of America.

The Sen­ate has not.

They have dodged the big issues, they have punted, the one great­est delib­er­a­tive body in the world has made a delib­er­ate deci­sion to avoid any deci­sion that might affect their elec­toral futures and the coun­try be damned.

The response to this inac­tion? Nobody in the media has chal­lenged the Sen­ate, nobody has pres­sured the sen­ate, until the last few days nobody has called on the Sen­ate to do anything.

And because the rest of Amer­ica is too busy sim­ply try­ing to sur­vive when the media has blamed the house for inac­tion and ignored the sen­ate the coun­try has ignored them too and not pres­sured them to do anything.

Per­haps if the media called the Sen­ate on this the peo­ple would have pres­sured them and we would have a bill in con­fer­ence com­mit­tee already.

But that is not to be, after all if the Amer­i­can Pub­lic is unwill­ing to pun­ish the Sen­ate for inac­tion there is no rea­son for action to take place.

And we once again get the gov­ern­ment and the con­se­quences we deserve.

The End.

Update: Still $525 short on the emer­gency Bleg, any help would be appreciated