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Originally Posted by Azure
No, nothing gets done in Congress because the people drafting the bills and sending them to Congress so they can legislate them are out of touch will what WOULD work, and what the American people want.
This health care bill isn't being stopped because the Republicans are pissing and moaning.
The Democrats don't NEED the Republicans. They control Capital Hill.
And yet, people are blaming this 'vast right wing conspiracy' for not letting this health care bill be passed.
Funny how that works.
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This rant has very little to do with what I said but anyway. Legislators are not really out of touch with what the American people want. They each know what their own constituency wants and that's what they push. A statement like "what the American people want" is just ridiculous. 300 million people do not want the same thing. And when 60% of people want a concrete piece of legislation, it tends to get passed.
Polls show that people tend to, on a large scale, disprove of what Congress as a whole is doing, yet approve of their own representatives. In other words, people can't really comprehend that they need to sacrifice local issues if they want to succeed with national endeavors. Not that it's always a good idea to promote national legislation over localized legislation, which it isn't.