The Senate is a horror show
In 1911, a freshman congressman from Milwaukee named Victor Berger, dissatisfied with the legislative branch, submitted a resolution to amend the Constitution. “Whereas the Senate in particular has become an obstructive and useless body, a menace to the liberties of the people, and an obstacle to social growth,” it read, the Senate should be dissolved and all its powers given to the House.
That might strike you as going a bit too far. But it’s hard not to sympathize, especially when you see stories such as this one, which describes how only one of President Biden’s ambassador nominees has been confirmed by the Senate. A key reason: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), “who has repeatedly held up confirmations of Biden nominees in opposition to a controversial natural gas pipeline between Russia and Germany.”
If the idea that a single senator can stop a bunch of nominations all on his own strikes you as ridiculous, you’re absolutely right.
In fact, there may be no greater obstacle to both a democratically responsive political system and an efficiently operating federal government than the United States Senate.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/12/senate-is-killing-us/
Republicans have made a mockery of "the world's greatest deliberative body". It's only performance art to them.
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