Senator Obstruction engaged in filibusteritis, or as it is also known clinically, “Kyl’s Disease”

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

Arizona's own Senator Obstruction, Jon Kyl, is unfortunately a member of the Senate Finance Committee. The markup of the Senate Finance Committee's health care reform bill (or more accurately that of its chairman, Senator "Mad Max" Baucus) is wending its way through 564 amendments, many of them trivial and entirely unrelated to health care reforms. It is a tactic to slow down the process by engaging in obstructionism. The GOP senators on the committee can fairly be called the "talk-it-to-death panel."

Our Senator Obstruction excels at this tactic. He is slow-walking debate on each of the proposed amendments, a form of filibuster in committee. Senate Finance Committee Chairman "Mad Max" Baucus called out Kyl for his obvious obstructionism and Kyl got his panties all in a twist and threw a hissy fit. Making Arizona proud – not!

Keith Olbermann correctly identifies this tactic as filibusteritis, or as it is also known clinically, "Kyl's disease." 'Countdown with Keith Olbermann' for Thursday, September 24Jon Kyl prides himself on a Senate career of obstructionism. We should all be so proud (sarcasm).

Jon Kyl is an embarrassment to this state. Arizonans deserve a senator who will offer constructive ideas and solutions to deal with a health care system that 78 percent of Americans in the recent CBS/New York Times poll said needs a complete overhaul, not one who takes big money from health care and insurance industry lobbyists and then argues that the health care system works just fine the way it is, and defends an unsustainable status quo.