Your morning reminder that the Senate is filled with barely functioning, brain dead idiots

Concern troll Ben Nelson (D-Go fuck yourself Nebraska) on how his lack of understanding about economics and deficits isn't going to get in the way of his notions about doing nothing.

Democrat Ben Nelson, a Senator from Nebraska, said the slumping economy and rising joblessness will be factors as Congress considers climate change and health care legislation. They are also driving concerns about the budget deficit, which widened to a record $1.42 trillion in the fiscal year that ended on Sept. 30, he said.

“When the economy’s not strong there’s a lot of interest in controlling spending,” Nelson said.

Yes, because the thing you want to do when you see two massive issues that represent two gigantic chunks of the economy that needed fixing decades ago and will swell and affect spending, deficits, and the economy in dramatically negative ways if something is not done about them: you sit on your fucking ass and do nothing, citing your concern about spending, deficits, and the economy as reasons for not doing anything about spending, deficits, and the economy. Because the best time to worry about long term problems is never, especially not in the short term.

So there you are. The reason we can't do anything to fix the bad economy is because of the bad economy. It's a perfect little snake eating it's own tail, much like your brain is eating itself right now. I betcha Benny is going to be real surprised too when his brilliant plan of "do nothing" results in the economy getting worse and all his buddies not getting re-elected. Then again, he'll probably just take that as a sign that the Senate should have done nothing earlier.