The Majority Leader of the United States Senate, Bill Frist (R) was sent to the woodshed for a good old fashioned spanking today. Briefly, Frist charged that the Democrats were responsible for the label that has been hung around the 109th Congress’s neck…that being, “the do nothing Congress“. Senator Harry Reid (D) as the Minority Leader took exception to that statement and proceeded to lead Frist down to the woodshed.

Frist starts the charge;

“Too often my colleagues on the other side of the aisle have inhibited the fulfillment of our duty,” said Frist, after a stirring reading of the preamble of the Constitution. “They have relied on obstruction and thrown up roadblocks at every opportunity. They have let politics get in the way of sound policy and purpose. That is unacceptable.”

No way is Reid gonna take this absurdity, he fires back;

“For more than 3 years, this Congress, which has been given the name of the “do-nothing Congress,” has turned a blind eye to the intractable war in Iraq, ignoring the administration’s many mistakes and allowing it to stay on a failed course,” said Reid. “Here we are, with 6 days left in the 109th Congress, and the Republicans, who control the House and Senate and the White House, have not held one hearing — not one — into the President’s wartime failures.”

Now, now Harry, just because Frist and the Republican’s hold all 3 branches of our government, should not mean that they are responsible for the direction of the “do nothing Congress”. After all, don’t ya know that the guy who was riding in the back seat of the car is the responsible party if the driver runs the car off the cliff? Come ‘on Harry what are ya thinking?

Senator Reid continues and takes this opportunity to give Frist a little history lesson on oversight and accountability.

“What was the Truman Commission? It was to determine what was going on with World War II. Was money being wasted? Were troop levels right? Korean war hearings were also held, and the same for the Vietnam war. But for this war, none–even though this war has taken longer than it took to settle the differences in the European theater in World War II. Soon it will be the same amount of time that we were able to beat Japan.”

Reid then continues to educate Frist by giving him just a few examples of why the 109th Republican lead Congress will be forever known as the ”do nothing Congress”.

“This Republican Congress has wasted 20 months on horse slaughtering; the Schiavo case, dealing with someone’s personal relationship, which should not even have been before this body; gay marriage; the nuclear option; flag burning; repealing the estate tax,” said Reid. “But they could not find a day for some time to look at the President’s mistakes, missteps, and misconduct, which have hurt American security and plunged Iraq into a civil war — not a day.”

That’s right Harry — not one day. Frist had to have been seething. But it gets even better. Senator Dick Durbin asks Senator Reid if he’d yeild for a question? Sure - at this point, Durbin takes his turn at Frist. Another whipping for the whipping boy of the day — Senator Bill Frist.

Take a couple of minutes and read the exchange between Durbin and Reid, you gotta know that after this beating, Frist slithered back to his offices hissing like a cornered rattlesnake.

Some days it’s not worth showing up for work, is it Bill?       George Sand