Senator Snowe's recent defense of her vote to filibuster the teachers and firefighters provision of the American Jobs Act (AJA). It's long and demonstrates a bad case of glassjaw, so let me translate:
"A lot of teachers and firefighters are going to have to learn to live without their jobs because I can't offer amendments to the bill, nor will anyone simply adopt everything I want to completely transform the tax code."
I look at it differently. While "Rome Is Burning" there isn't time to pitch a fit about the color of the buckets or to squabble about the traffic patterns of the rebuilt city. It's time to fill the buckets and put the darn out.