Do Senators represent their states anymore?

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:shrug:

[MadBadger]

1. What do you mean?

[atreides1]

2. We'll find out

When the vote for mandated health care premiums takes place.

[leftstreet]

4. I agree, we're about to find out

Healthcare costs are crippling state budgets right now and it will only get worse

[Rhiannon12866]

3. Excellent question.

I wonder if the huge turnout at the free health clinics in conservative areas will affect the vote there. :-(

[kenny blankenship]

5. They represent the RICH PEOPLE of their states - same as ALWAYS

just that nowadays, those richest persons are corporations.
In this and in any other parallel universe, the Senators from NY state will defend banks. The Senators from Conn. will defend their cousins the insurance corps, and hedge funds.

Flyover Senators will have their doors open to anyone with money.

[Laelth]

9. +1 n/t

:dem:

-Laelth

[Renew Deal]

6. Hardly

Maybe if a military base closes, but not much more.

[Double T]

7. NO!

Senators bow to and serve their corporate masters. Therefore THEY ALL need to fired in their next elections.

[rwheeler31]

8. Some do.

[valerief]

10. More like their estates. nt

[Yupster]

11. Obviously they represent their parties

since so many votes are pretty much 100 % partisan.

The original idea of the senate was that they would be the voice of the states in Washington and that's why senators were chosen by the state legislatures.

The 17th Amendment changed that and now they pretty much just represent their political parties.

[Jamastiene]

12. Most of them are too busy protecting their stock portfolios

and their corporate masters.

[dysfunctional press]

13. they represent the corporate state.

bought and paid for.

[Terra Alta]

14. Perhaps there are a few who do.

But most of them represent the rich and powerful, and the corporations. Whoever can throw them the most $. Screw the little people.

[KT2000]

15. If thay pass "national plans"

they will be negating the state laws that protect their citizens.
If they do that, they will sell their constituents down the river.
That is a real line in the sand especially for states with good consumer laws.

[begin_within]

16. I don't feel that Feinstein or Boxer are in touch with Californians

or Represenatives (Pelosi or my Congresswoman, Susan Davis) either... I feel that they are in touch with the people they chat with at wine & cheese events, but mainly to get that fondue recipe or whimper at the view in back of the infinity pool. They probably have people surrounding them telling them that all is just fine & dandy with Californians. So, no, I don't think Senators represent the people of their state well at all.

[Kablooie]

17. Not necessarily. They support the states their sugar daddy corporations are in.

[stewartcolbert08]

18. Not Lieberman

[cali]

19. Mine do. Proudly and ferociously.

[TicketyBoo]

20. They are too busy

worrying about the next campaign (and the necessary contributions for it) to be worrying about what actually matters.