There's a saying in politics: All process is bull#$&%! In other words, pols are at their least sincere when they're screaming at each other about how things should be done rather than what things should be done. (Remember Democratic outrage at the prosecutorial abuses of Ken Starr? Suppose for a moment he'd been trying to force a mother to testify against her own child in order to prove the Bush brothers stole Florida in 2000...) The current wrangling in the Senate over office space and staff resources, with all its attendant wailing and gnashing of teeth, is a reminder of just how true that old cliche is.
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