The Greenville Advocate: Opinion

Well once again, the Alabama Senate is at a standstill because of a few, bull-headed idiots that others in this state saw fit to elect. Yes, we used the word, idiots.

What's it all about? Proponents of a Macon County gambling bill have stalled the Alabama Senate for weeks and are threatening to disrupt the legislative session if the bill dies. The bill's sponsor, Sen. Myron Penn, D-Union Springs, made it clear Thursday proponents will retaliate.

"If you kick my dog, I'm going to kick your cat," he said.

There you have it ladies and gentlemen, from the same body that once debated secession, civil rights and so much other important speeches, we get, "If you kick my dog, I'm going to kick your cat."

It's time that some of these senators bid farewell to that statehouse and go home to whatever rocking chair they have and live comfortably off the money this state has paid them over the years.

For the second year we are enduring a senate that is accomplishing nothing while living on our dime. Yes, Lt. Gov. Jim Folsom Jr said recently that normally the senate gets busy the last few days of the session. If that's the case, let's cut their session to five working days and anything beyond that they have to do for free.

We are sick and tired of a do-nothing senate where there are so many men and women masquerading as adults it's sickening. Maybe we should let the delegates from Boys State or Girls State go in and do the business of the people. We are very sure that a lot more would get done and we would not have to endure these senators chomping at the bit on television and newspapers each night crying over that dog being kicked or that cat being kicked. Talk about dumb. No wonder the rest of the country laughs at us because look at the people PAID_to represent us.

Do the senators causing all this brouhaha need us to draw a picture for them? Do we need to draw a line from the senate chamber to the front door so they'll know their way out?

We have some good people in that body, including our own Sen. Wendell Mitchell, but he alone can't win this battle because he, like others, are way to intelligent to deal with the people who spout off about kicking cats and dogs or by bullying others into their way of thinking, or punching a guy.

To be honest, we'd like to kick something!