(#4574) The sham republican party

      Yesterday on the Senate floor a republican senator introduced a bipartisan amendment to the bipartisan infrastructure bill to clarify what he considered a gray area. It was a thoughtful and well intentioned amendment that was strictly there to clarify a sentence in the bill. I thought about it and although it may have been overkill it was acceptable to me as I couldn't reasonably see a problem with it. This happens a lot when a huge bill is written it can at times be interpreted in small ways to mean more than the intent of the language. So I was expecting the amendment to be passed with a voice vote.
     However, a republican from Alabama objected in that he wanted to add his amendment to the amendment about a sentence clarification from another republican from Ohio. The republican from Alabama wanted his amendment, which was to add 50 billion dollars to the military without saying what the money was for. Well 50 billion is a lot of money and given that the military is shoddy in allowing itself to be audited this was a dead end with democrats from the get go. As well the money would have come from infrastructure projects already funded for in the overall bill. So even though the republican from Ohio agreed to add the republican from Alabama's amendment to his amendment a democratic senator from Vermont objected to the Alabaman adding his military spending amendment.
     So another democrat from Delaware offered the same first amendment from the Ohioan and again the republican from Alabama objected because he wasn't allowed to add his military giveaway. So the obnoxious and disgusting republican senator from Texas offered the same bill and then the republican senator from Alabama objected again killing the original amendment. So democrats tried to help the first amendment pass but were thwarted by a republican senator from Alabama. Then the pernicious disgraceful senator from Texas blamed it all on democrats even though his fellow republican from Alabama was the one who killed the original amendment. I hate republicans because they are lying ass hypocrites who wouldn't be able to tell the truth if it would save your children's lives!