I understand that positioning for the next election, partisan politics and lobbying money are a deadly combination to any possible reform. But its so obvious to me watching these folks push and shove good ideas away that they: 1) are utterly clueless how all of this (credit crisis, recession, housing bust) happened; b) have absolutely no idea how to fix any of it; iii) are primarily concerned with getting re-elected.
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“Watching them botch the surgery …” when you are the patient. Yikes!
Yet they are the only legislators we’ve got!
Things haven’t gotten bad enough yet for most of them to worry. Most have pretty safe seats, even in the face of the Massachusetts election.
#3, I would not bet on that in the face of the MA election. What safer seat was there than to be a Dem running in liberal Mass for “Kennedy’s Senate Seat?” I think I would be looking over my shoulder if I were a Dem of any stripe or a “moderate” Repub.