Sorry, but I’m beginning to think that one of the greatest failings of the Founders and Framers is that they didn’t provide we the People a trigger by which we would be allowed to sedate all of our elected officials, dump them into a dark, dank pit, and then seal them inside with about three dozen honey badgers. FOXNews, “Only One Senator Stays to Question U.S. Envoy to Syria at Confirmation Hearing”:

America’s ambassador to Syria had some important things to say at his confirmation hearing Tuesday about the regime’s brutal crackdown on protesters.

Unfortunately for him, only one senator stuck around to talk about it.

Robert Ford, who is President Obama’s man on the ground amid the chaos in Syria, spoke to a row of empty seats as he discussed the tumult in that country before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

As he described the “widespread arrest campaigns” and “atrocious torture” and government-sanctioned “slaughter” in Syria, only Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., was at the dais.

There are 18 other members of that committee.

Asked why so many were absent at a critical time in Syria, lawmakers gave a range of explanations. Some had prior obligations, like conference calls and administrative duties. But surely it was no coincidence that 18 lawmakers were absent just hours before the Senate was set to go on recess following the protracted debt-ceiling debate.

“They were just catching planes,” said Elliott Abrams, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. “It’s really a shame.”

Of course, in all fairness, these Senators just got through a marathon session of assbanging the American people with a rolled-up debt-ceiling compromise deal, so they’re likely quite tired. And if there’s to be more assbanging, many of them are going to have to restock on the little blue ammo.

It ain’t easy to endure a marathon session of assbanging when you’re so long in the tooth, and when your pendulous downy gray Senatorial manboobs get so easily bruised from all that slapping against the small of America’s back.

(thanks to Sarah R)