This is the kind of stuff they should be doing, IMO

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My comment stands. And no, it's worse now.

Apr 24, 2019, 10:57 AM

The other part we fail to see is how the mechanics of perpetual reelection works, and how power is wielded in Congress. You get elected and you are immediately pounced on my your own party to tow the line. If you do, you're rewarded. Be controversial and you're castigated and stand to lose reelection. Your record of seniority is more important than your voting record. And NO ONE, for either party, wants to actually tackle any problems. Pander to your base with campaign rhetoric during election years, then pull back and accomplish nothing until the next election cycle. Take a position and you tick off 50% of people. Lean one way but have no real impact, and you keep your base and add moderates, pushing you into reelection territory.

You can see it on both sides of the aisle. The rhetoric of Nancy Pelosi and Pete Sessions for example. The differences are stark. The sound like ideologues. But when you look at what they actually accomplish, it's minimal. Take AOC for example. A wingbut who comes in and she's being dealt with handily by Nancy Pelosi. GOP freshmen fare no better. The Tea Party was crushed by the Lindsey Grahams and John McCains of the Republican party in Congress.

All of this creates a good old boy system, weak and toothless legislation that fails to address real problems, and it fosters a MONEY system that also plays a huge roll. It also creates a power vacuum that's as dangerous as they come (mainly between the executive and legislative branches). You saw it with Obamacare. That was controversial, and doomed to fail. So Congress, instead of tackling a problem, passed SOMETHING which was never intended to fix the problem. THEN they allowed the executive branch so much leeway in enforcing the law, that it took the political pressure off of Congress for the failure. Blame it on the implementation by the President. You see it in immigration. Instead of reforming the law, Congress has allowed the executive branch to basically ignore what they passed decades ago, and enforce (or not) the laws as the President sees fit. It puts the immigration ball in the President's court and takes all the pressure and consequences away from Congress.

It's all just so very bad, and term limits remove A LOT of this problem.

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16 House bills have been signed into law in 2019, including

Term freaking limits. These are people legislating not to

Welcome to the past 25-30 years (hell, probably 50+) years

My comment stands. And no, it's worse now.

Re: My comment stands. And no, it's worse now.

And yet people lost their #### minds when

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