One of the beautiful things about the Senate is that senators have 6 year terms. They can worry about long-term problems and are not slaves to primaries and general election every two years. For over 200 years it led to compromise....then came Moscow Mitch, Ted Cruz, and both Paul dirtbags from Kentucky.
Why were McCain and Biden able to work together, because they could find ways that both thought would make the country better.
Why does it fail now. Because Moscow Mitch and friends no longer care about the country, they only care about loyalty to the party and the big donors like the Koch brothers.
A root cause analysis of Benghazi would say that it was caused by the budget cuts of the sequester which forced the embassy to use cheap locals rather than American troops. Who caused the sequester...Cruz, mostly, with help from Moscow Mitch, Paul Ryan, and Rand Paul.
Why was the sequester there in the first place? Bipartisan senators thought that they would put such a horrible poison pill into legislation that no one would risk it because it would be horrible for the country.
Reasonable folks wouldn't trigger it before Citizens United and the wide spread bribery it brought about.
Get rid of the traitors, get rid of citizens United, and the Senate can go back to being the place where reasonable people find compromise to make the country better.
Many here will say that I am gullible like diogenes looking for an honest Republican is a hopeless cause. But remember, the ACA only survived at all because of one Republican, John McCain. There are some out there...maybe it will be a new party that grows out if this as the Republican party dies like the Whigs...either way, the Senate is needed. It just needs to not be a criminal enterprise run by Moscow Mitch.
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