Words can’t describe how much I hate Dingy.

Via Yahoo! News:

You know the U.S. Senate is getting perilously close to Too Hot for C-SPAN territory when the presiding officer must stop everything and remind everyone that chamber rules require lawmakers to “address each other in the third person.”

On Thursday, Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee, who earlier this week joined Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz in a 21-hour protest speech against the 2010 federal health care law, objected when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid moved to fast-track a spending measure that would nix Tuesday’s looming government shutdown.

The reason? Because viewers at home were expecting the vote to occur on Friday or Saturday — and he didn’t want them to miss it.

Reid exploded as he took to the Senate floor.

“This is not the House of Representatives,” he said from the floor. “We have rules here!”

It’s those very rules that keep business in the chamber moving at a snail’s pace. Thursday’s inaction means that even if the Senate moves ahead Friday, the House would not receive the bill until Sunday, Sept. 29, at the earliest.

That would give negotiations between the chambers, which are controlled by opposing parties, essentially one day to figure out how to agree to keep the federal government running.

Furious on the floor, Reid then mocked Cruz, who was standing near him, for his daylong protest speech the day before.

“Maybe I’ll give this great speech that will turn the world around,” Reid fumed. “This is senseless.”

Reid asked Lee to revoke his objection to holding a vote that night, but he refused.