By the Family Research Council ...
Psychologists have a term for people who are terrified of working: ergophobia. And right now, it appears that Senate Democrats have a mean case of it. Moments before the chamber engaged in what appeared to be actual governing, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) called it off. Just as Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) was piecing together a plan for fiscal year 2013, his party pulled the plug on the debate that had been scheduled for this week.
Doing something -- just about anything beyond recognizing the delights of apple pie (motherhood is probably no longer safe) -- would require them to take an unacceptable political risk.
I have some hope that beginning next year they will no longer own the Senate and that then some sort of a budget may be passed.
They might be able to get a congressional majority for that, provided that they could continue to receive their salaries, perks and future pay increases. It would probably have to be in the form of a last minute and therefore unnoticed amendment to a national recognition of a National Apple Pie Day or of a Puppy Dogs Are Cute Day bill, but even those might be too contentious.
Maybe it could be done administratively. President Obama is good at that.
Why don’t we just put them on unemployment? The Senate is as close to self-unemployed I’ve ever seen.