I've worked on Christmas Eve, I'm sure many of us common folk have...

[WCGreen]

What's the big deal about a handful of pampered and temperamental elitists being made to spend Christmas Eve working...

This is, America, after all. Suck it up boys and girls and do your freakin' job...







Edit to change such to suck....

[Forkboy]

1. I always loved to work the holidays.

I never did anything special for the holidays like other workers, so let them have the fun and I'll take the double time pay. :)

[SharonAnn]

2. It was the soonest they could vote on the amendment. 30 hours after submission.

Next step is 7 am Tuesday vote and then 8 pm (?) Thursday vote.

It is their job and I don't know any Democratic senators who are grandstanding. In fact, like Sen. Whitehouse, they're angry that the GOP has been so obstructionist that they have caused this delay because it affects all the staffers who work at the Senate and ruins their holiday time with their families.

[rd_kent]

10. I could care less about the congress and the staffers.

they have caused this delay because it affects all the staffers who work at the Senate and ruins their holiday time with their families.

Fuck them, they can work late if they have to. Its their job.

I find it hard to feel sorry for any of them that have to work late and "ruin their holiday with family" when we have more than 100,000 troops fighting two wars that get to spend NO time with their families.
Until this congress grows a set of balls (no offense to you ladies) and puts and end to all this nonsense, then they can work late to do what they should have done weeks, or months, ago.

[Morning Dew]

3. Hell, I'm working this Christmas Eve.

Start at 2, get done about 2a.m.

Fun times!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. You said it!

I've spend many a Christmas Eve working at the bedside of a critically ill patient...

It's a proud memory, and it should be for our Congresscritters too.


K&R

[uppityperson]

5. I'm working x-mas eve. It will be a good evening to work.

[LostInAnomie]

6. I don't think there is a holiday I haven't worked at some time or another.

I feel no pity for their pampered asses.

[gimama]

7. but thanks to their fine example,

We know NOW, We can whine & bitch & moan about it! woohooo!

[Parker CA]

8. Yep, and especially for what they're being paid.

[Missy Vixen]

9. My husband's working

My proudly liberal grandma is in bad health. We're hoping for some time with her that evening.

As someone else said, the staff members are the ones I feel sorry for. They don't get paid well, they already work at least a 12-hour day, and getting home for Christmas is a fantasy for them.

[KharmaTrain]

11. I Worked Xmas Eve For 25 Years...

Gave the goys the night off. No big deal...and actually one of my more favorite nights to work...no mucky-mucks around and everyone else who was there was mellow and relaxed. Plus getting time and a half wasn't bad either.

[Jamastiene]

12. They are such divas.

It's like watching a spoiled rotten brat be all melodramatic because they have to vacuum or something. Oh, woe is them. How can they ever stand it? They're working so harrrrrrrd.

Oh.My.Fucking.Gawd.

[sandnsea]

13. My son has to work Christmas Day, 8 to 5 no less

Can people seriously not improvise if they forgot to buy a jar of olives.

[bedazzled]

17. it's gross, isn't it? our supermarkets are open christmas DAY

i won't even buy a cup of coffee on a holiday.
i don't care if it's a "religious" holiday.
a day off is a day off...

[Raine]

14. I did on Christmas Eve

for a while I did housecleaning for a living and I remember cleaning other people's homes and having to clean my own house when I got home because company was coming.

[clear eye]

15. I'm in no hurry to see this particular bill passed.

They can take their time, as far as I'm concerned. Maybe some of them will get an earful over the holidays that will make them demand a better bill.

[WCGreen]

16. Once the Bill Passes it goes to Conference...

changes can still be made at that point....

[Brickbat]

18. Their argument that they have to get done before Christmas gets no sympathy from me. I've worked

Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and every other holiday except Labor Day, which I REFUSE to work on. Call it my religion, if you want.

Mr. Brickbat works for a 24/7/365 operation, too. There are a lot of them out there. I don't give a good goddamn if the senators might be late for Christmas for ONCE in their lives. I really don't.

[Blue Owl]

19. In fact nothing is more American than working 3 jobs

...according to GOP nutcase Michele Bachmann, who I seem to recall uttered that statement once.

[StreetKnowledge]

20. Yep, I remember that one too.

Bachmann is just saying what the GOP wants all of us to be - serfs to the moneyed aristocracy.