Your vote on health care is more important than your re-election.

From the standpoint of a campaign strategist, everything you do in Congress should aim at re-election. That's one reason why our government has become dysfunctional: Lawmakers spend less time completing the work they were assigned in the last election and more time preparing for the next one. They inflame or placate the public when they should be serving it. Elections were supposed to be a means to good legislation. Instead, legislation has become a means ... Full Story »

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by Kaizar Campwala - Mar. 15, 2010

This a broad stroke meditation on nothing less than the state of our democracy. There's some evidence to back up his point, but on the whole I think Saletan takes on more than he can chew. For instance, do we know really that on the whole Congress acted differently in the past?

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