Senate/Press fail their main responsibilities

Robert Samuelson, not having a degree in journalism makes the faux pas of criticizing the failings of the MSM. Nice going. (HT: Power Line)

His best line is the following:

One job of journalism is to inform the public what our political leaders are doing.

That's what most of us here among the great unwashed believed. More and more, though, we're seeing broad strokes masquerading as analysis, mixed with political spin that only those inside the Beltway really are interested in.

A second point is that I've heard the points mentioned by Mr. Samuelson several times before by callers to talk radio shows. It does seem that the Senate was more interested in kicking this can down the road than in making sound policy. They're afraid of Hispanic/Latino voters. With the Democrats that's understandable, since they've put so much effort into making it easier to commit vote fraud and enlist this group as a bloc, as it has African-Americans.