For Money, Glory, or for the People? Or maybe Revenge?

I am sure that Sen. Bunning has a reason in his own mind as to why he just put up one of the biggest one-man filibusters ever in the Senate. But as for me, I am confused as to what his goals were. At one point he claimed that he only wanted the Senate to prove that they had a way to pay for the Medicare, for unemployed benefits, highway projects, flood control and many other things. Yet he then voted against a bill to curb spending. As part of a democracy, Sen. Bunning's job is to serve the people, he is to always make decisions not for his own good but for the good of the people. However, it seems to me that he is summing up all of the selfishness of our govt. in this final throe before he retires. The price for Bunning's pride is that the American people were without money for flood control programs, thousands of jobs were furloughed, all because Bunning decided since he could stop progress he would. Is this why these officials are in office? Is it so that they can salvage their political careers, so they can save their pride? Or were they put in office to look after the good of the American people? What is even more sickening to me is the way that Sen. Republican Leader, Mitch McConnell handled the problem that Dunning posed. Instead of saying "We do not support this tactic, this is wrong". He tried to avoid the question when it was posed to him, and when he finally faced it, he said that Sen. Bunning's views were not shared by everyone. And when he was asked if HE supported it he fudged around and repeated his previous statement that Bunning is not speaking for everyone. It seems like McConnell is more worried about splitting his party than he is about one of his party acting like a child. This type of politics has been going on for awhile and in both parties, Bunning has just brought it all to a point. Now it is time for both parties to start acting like mature adults and see the effects of their actions on the people. Maybe with some of this we will see America come back once again to the power that it should be. All we need is the two parties to accept each others ideas and work together.