ALL politicians need to figure out pretty damn quick that their current and recent behavior is not going to fly.
The Republicans' little hissy fit and not allowing hearings after 2 pm just put them squarely on the sheet list of millions of people worried about a multi-state natural disaster from the pine beetle epidemic.
"Showing the Democrats" is apparently more important than the jobs provided by the logging, ski, hunting and outdoor industries, the lives of millions of citizens, hundreds of thousands of homes, the trucking artery for most of the Western United States, billions of dollars in potential damage, and our national parks and forests.
Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, South Dakota, Utah, Arizona, are justifiably concerned about the more than 5 million acres (and growing) of dead trees surrounding their homes and businesses.
Too bad politricks was more important than hearings on the issue.
Katrina and Nero fiddling while Rome burned are going to look like good governing if those millions of acres of dead pine trees burst into flame.
And did I mention there is also a drought?