As I’ve said before, it’s up to ‘we the people’ … ‘THEY’ are both the same!! … “Until the voter pulls their heads out of of social media and start thinking like sentient beings this crap congressional record will continue.”
I have heard from both sides about how masterfully the leaders of the House and Senate are at getting the stuff through Congress…..all that is media hype and fanciful BS…..
The truth is that it is autocratic rule….this coming from both parties….
There has evolved a highly centralized, autocratic system in the House and Senate that tolerates meaningful dissent from independently minded legislators in only the rarest and most unique circumstances. Nancy Pelosi and Newt Gingrich led the way in the House. Each extracted compliance from the members of their respective caucuses, Pelosi much more effectively and lastingly than Gingrich. Their demands – their entire strategy – have had one unifying theme: success in the next elections, an effective enticement to re-election hungry members. From selecting a new healthcare system to deciding if it is — or is not — time to impeach a President (remember, in addition to the…
I responded on the original post site. We haven’t evolved into the current situation. We have always had party officers assigned to enforce discipline, and the current leadership is no where near as strong as some of the fabled Congressional leaders of the past, like Joseph G. Canon, reputed to be the most tyrannical Speaker of the House in US history. What we have is a focus on personal greed that was not allowed in former times with lip service both to ethics and common sense.
It Is What It Is 
I responded on the original post site. We haven’t evolved into the current situation. We have always had party officers assigned to enforce discipline, and the current leadership is no where near as strong as some of the fabled Congressional leaders of the past, like Joseph G. Canon, reputed to be the most tyrannical Speaker of the House in US history. What we have is a focus on personal greed that was not allowed in former times with lip service both to ethics and common sense.
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