That's pretty bad. That's rewrite the Constitution bad. The war drums are sounding in the hills. Have you heard the Convention of States talk? That's a call to a second Constitutional Convention, to rewrite the Constitution. Congress needs to do something before it gets rewritten out of existence.
A lot of this ire comes from voters who don't get their bills passed, or who see bills they dislike passed (Obamacare for example).
If Congress wants to survive, it needs to connect with the voters. The leadership needs to have some full time flacks to get the word out. We voters want to know what was in the bill, and why the party supposed it or opposed it. We want to know when a bill is killed by arbitrary action, by Harry Reid or who ever. I heard some House member say the House had passed seven bills to revive the economy and the Senate had trash canned them all. Sounds good, but that's the first time I ever heard that, and the Congressmen didn't list the bills in question.
The newsies don't cover this. Most of them don't understand much, few of them will do the hard work of research, it's easier to just pontificate. And their editors would prefer to run "lifestyle" stories. Even the Wall St Journal is pushing a slick paper insert that is mostly about selling fancy clothes and houses. Like I care where to buy $400 a pair shoes.
But a good Republican or Democratic flack could explain his party's angle on each bill, make it interesting, and circulate it around the blogosphere, to the few print publications that still do real news, to Matt Drudge, to Glenn Reynolds, and even to the newspapers, even though newspapers are pretty much a lost cause these days.
We voters might think better of Congress if we knew what was going on.
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