Who Deserves a Flog Today?

Oh, for Bleeping Sake! What is going on over at MSNBC – you know, "The Place For Politics"? Today, for the first time in a while, I decided to turn on The Newz earlier than usual, knowing that an important development was in progress in the Senate when  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid FINALLY moved on what is known as the "Nuclear Option" to stop the un-ending filibuster's the GOP have been flinging at Every Single Nominee  Prez Obama has offered to Congress to accept so that our government can get moving on filling judicial seats, as well as any other Open Position in Government that requires a vote by the Senate.

While the Senate Action was happening, "The Place For Politics" was immersed in a detailed discussion of Thanksgiving Food, Thanksgiving This, Thanksgiving That. What? If I wanted to know how to better stuff a Turkey or how to deal with unruly relatives I would have gone to a show that focuses on Lifestyle Issues and Events. I didn't tune-in to a News Channel to hear about that nonsense. I wanted Real Time Coverage of the Senate Vote! But no!

Can you believe it? MSNBC has become my punching bag of late for dropping the ball way too many times over the past year in particular on covering Political Stories and Events in a timely, as well as Serious Manner. Today's absurdity in yammering about turkeys rather than The Main Turkey of the Senate, Mitch McConnell, who tried to make the New Rules appear to be yet another excuse to bash Obamacare, is truly pathetic.

What just happened this morning in the Senate is something many of us have been wanting Reid to do, and is a very important development. While MSNBC mumbled-away in the background about cranberries and stuffing, I assumed nothing was moving on the Senate Floor about the much-touted Nucelar Option so I followed my usual routine of going to a few Online News Outlets and Facebook, where, to my surprise, headlines and posts blared that a vote had been taken and that the Filibuster Rules have now been changed. Thank God we can finally get something DONE! How disgustingly obstructionistic the GOP has been since Obama took office, obviously using the filibuster tactics as a cynical Partisan Ploy to continue the sabotaging actions/in-actions so that the Obama Administration would continue to look like a failure.

The Flogging Whip was so appalled by the lack of Political Coverage of A Major Political Event at MSNBC that it almost fainted, slumping into a corner of it's little mahogany-lined box in frustrated disillusionment, then tossed its lashes at me to use for this post. Considering that I'm still trying to wake-up following a wonderfully sleepy morning filled with welcomed rain and have more cotton than grey cells for a brain thus far, I'll stop here and provide a few links that will explain the finer points of what I'm writing about. Read THIS and THIS if you wish.

Bottom line? "The Place For Politics" is increasingly becoming The Place For Hollow-Icks!

Rant over…and out!

Note: Updated & Corrected as of 7:00pm PST