I agree... I'm not expecting any justice at this point... "most deliberative and more prestigious body" my foot... they are either stupid, corrupt, apathetic, spiteful, or any number of other negative adjectives
from 2017 essay...
...There really aren’t better words to express just how much of a joke the Senate has become. These men and women, who earn a healthy $174,000+ every year to theoretically represent their constituents back home, are instead using floor time to debate when a senator can criticize the integrity and character of their colleagues. Who knows? We might be a few days away from a senator introducing a resolution expressing the sense of the Senate about when a horse thief can be called a horse thief. And even that would probably be divided along party lines...
The U.S. Senate no longer deserves to be called the “world’s greatest deliberative body.” The American people outside the Acela Corridor (and many within it) see in that body everything they despise about Washington, D.C. and politics in general: a bunch of brats who have been in Washington for too long, can’t get anything done (we still aren’t finished with cabinet confirmations), reflexively criticize the other side, and use the Senate floor to get themselves into the national media spotlight. It’s as if passing substantive legislation is a distant fifth- or sixth-tier priority...
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