It's clear that President Obama and the Democrats are more than happy to discard public opinion (10% approval rating) and charge head on with unpopular measures in the interests of ideology. Not only this, they are willing to look like massive hypocrites by using the "nuclear" option which was designed for budgetary measures that don't increase the deficit. Watch the President and other Democrats cry out against this supposedly unconstitutional procedure here. So I was ready to give up, frustrated that the system is so far from what was intended and so broken that it couldn't be fixed, it's "public servants" so insulated from public opinion that they could simply ignore the outcry from the masses.
But hope springs eternal. Senator Scott Brown (R? Mass.), so recently the darling of the right for taking the seat formerly held by Ted Kennedy, voted for a jobs bill so asinine it should disqualify anyone who votes for it from public service. The backlash was immediate. Not only that, my Congressman, Joseph Cao (R? LA), the sole Republican vote in the House in favor of the health care program, has since seen his campaign donations drop 40%.
So maybe, just maybe, the people are willing to hold the politicians feet to the fire. Maybe the outrage can be maintained long enough that we can begin to correct the system. Maybe sometime in my lifetime, the Constitution will have meaning again.
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