One of those blocked bills is the Captive Primate Safety Act, which spends $17 million preventing the interstate sale of monkeys.

According to Rob Bluey at RedState.com:

Coburn said the bills included in Reid's omnibus have virtually no requirements for accountability, making it impossible to measure their effectiveness. "If we send a billion dollars in one direction, how do we know we accomplish what we intended to do?" he asked. "They refuse to put metrics on to hold people accountable. … It's the hard job that we're paid to do to provide oversight and get rid of waste, fraud and abuse."

Amanda Carpenter at Townhall.com adds:

Reid said the GOP would have a choice to pass these bills “or continue to stand beside a colleague or two intent on blocking virtually everything.” Reid singled out Coburn again in a news conference last week by telling reporters, "For those of you who may not know this, you cannot negotiate with Coburn. It's just something that you learn over the years is a waste of time."

Reid is desperate to move pass the energy debate since it's a losing issue for Democrats, so he could try to put the Monkey Pork bill on the Senate calendar for consideration as early as next week.

"And I love the idea that all these free traders, free marketeers now got to have the government to, to bail them out. If I hear one of these ignorant, hypocritical, sanctimonious free traders ever talk about free markets again, they should be pilloried. I mean they are absolutely - this is an administration of jerks and cowards and fools. I mean it's unbelievable."

Jeff Poor at NewsBusters has the details.

Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Charles Schumer (N.Y.) said for the first time this election cycle that Democrats could wake up on Nov. 5 with a filibuster-proof, 60-seat Senate majority.

If you look at the poll numbers for each race, it's hard not to reach the same conclusion.

I hate to spoil the end, but it was written too justly to not share with you:

The abiding lesson here is what happens when you combine private profit with government power. You create political monsters that are protected both by journalists on the left and pseudo-capitalists on Wall Street, by liberal Democrats and country-club Republicans. Even now, after all of their dishonesty and failure, Fannie and Freddie could emerge from this taxpayer rescue more powerful than ever. Campaigning to spare taxpayers from that result would represent genuine "change," not that either presidential candidate seems interested.