It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that I'm no fan of the current legislative branch. It reminds me more of a group of kindergartners than it does a government body. From what I learned in high school, the Senate and the House is supposedly full of elected adults. I believed that was true until about 2009. Now I'm convinced that we have more than six hundred children making laws and shouting at each other. I am a firm advocate of replacing each member of Congress with a cat. Despite the animal's six hour day, they would still get more done than the current elected body, and with less fighting to boot. Plus, it would probably be easier to get six hundred cats (a very independent animal, mind you) to agree on something.
Cat jokes aside, I thought that passing the Zadroga Bill would be a no-brainer. It was a simple piece of legislation, after all. For those of you that don't know, the Zadroga Bill gives workers at the wreckage of the World Trade Center (firemen, policemen, etc.) health coverage. A disturbingly high amount of rescuers now have harmful diseases and illnesses caused by the volatile carcinogens that they inhaled at ground zero.
