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Old 12-04-2011, 04:51 PM
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the shame is the gridlock that occurs, and us waiting for things to happen while they make sure that anything that happens worth crowing about came from 'them'. of course, the opposite of 'them' does what they can to keep that from happening.
so, nothing happens and we all plod along.

we need term limits for congress. if they can't get re-elected, they might get off their asses and actually do something because they don't have to worry about pandering to voters.
the actual solution would be taking away redistricting from elected officials. if there were limited safe partisan districts there would also be limited safety in partisanship.

but that faces the same problem your solution does. both are state level issues and each state has an entrenched interest in the status quo.
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