Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma announced that he is happy with the gridlock because it keeps votes from being passed. I readily admit I'm a bit naive about just what it is that Senators are supposed to do, but I thought passing bills to make this a better country was why they were given office. Silly me!
Even though Americans believe the government is broken, Coburn's statement made clear that it is not broken but has been hibernating for far too long. Like the sleeping behemoth the Republicans would like to keep it...no spending, no change will keep us just where we are. Again, it seems to me that the majority of the country has made clear that is an unacceptable place.
The Senate will live in their medically insured cocoon, enjoying all their perks, continuing to unpatriotically disparaging our duly elected President, and quote what the public wants by cutting short the process and guessing they want what the good senator wants since they elected him. It saves them from having the tedious chore of reading polls.
With so many of our citizens unemployed or too busy to search for accurate news on the state of the nation, we seem to have a number of Legislators with a similar head set. Is there some way they can be 'outed' so the voting public can see them as they are and vote them out of office in the next election? If the spammers can reach everyone...can't we hire a few of them to get the truth to the people. Clearly we have no existing media that can or is doing it currently or consistently.
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