Americans Aren’t Very Happy Right This Minute
The U.S. Senate is an extremely powerful institution whose tasks include the approval of treaties, the confirmation of Cabinet secretaries, Supreme Court justices, federal judges, as well as conducting the trials of those impeached by the House. Senators serve six-year terms, and thus one-third of the body come up for election every two years.
Currently, the Senate is led by the Republican majority, though it’s possible that the 2020 election will change that. It shapes up to be largely a referendum on Trump and Americans’ frustration with their mentally unstable president, yet that’s hardly the only annoying aspect of life here at the moment. Realize, for instance, that 93% of voters want to see common sense gun laws passed, yet the Senate has never wavered in its subservience to the NRA, thus denying what 13 out of every 14 Americans are demanding of them.
Of course, gun control is only one issue, though it happens to be a hot one, insofar as mass shootings are, on average, a more-than-daily occurrence. Receiving less ink right this moment is environmental stewardship, though, again, the vast majority (seven out of ten) of Americans are furious that the most powerful nation on Earth pulled out of the Paris Accord on Climate Change.
It is for this reason that we see new candidates, heretofore completely unknown, entering the race. In Iowa, for example, retired Vice Admiral Michael Franken (pictured) has decided to run as a Democratic challenger to Republican incumbent Joni Ernst. Franken’s video (linked above) is really about one specific thing: doing what’s right in the face of a dysfunctional federal government, which in this case means having the “strength to stand up to Donald Trump.”
Election day is 14 months away, and anything can happen between now and then, but Americans aren’t very happy right now, and it’s hard to imagine the circumstances in which that’s going to turn itself around.
In other news, in the UK, 21 conservatives have gone against party lines in an effort to save British democracy. Imagine that. People with the fortitude to stand up for their country.
Craig,
What’s with you lately?
In nearly every one of comments and observations, your information is totally distorted or inaccurate ? When corrected, you fall silent and some time later continue to disseminate the same disinformation in a slightly different format.
1) 93% of voters do not gun control. There is almost no support for a change to the Second Amendment. Senators are elected by voters, not lobby groups. The only power lobby groups have is ensuring the support of a large percentage of voters. No senator would be elected if 93% of the voters decided not to support the candidate at the ballot box.
The truth is, you are a victim of your own advocacy. After a while you think you little group meeting around the cracker barrel represents the majority, instead of a handful of “fellow travelers.
The 21 MP’s who betrayed their voters, their party and the nation, are not ” saving British democracy” !!! Far from it, these petulant, disgraceful, selfish malcontents will be dis-endorsed and removed from parliament in the forthcoming election.
The British people vote for Brexit in a general referendum. What is more Democratic than a referendum?
These 21 Conservatives were elected to faithfully serve the constituents who voted for them as conservative party candidates.
Boris Johnson was elected Prime Minister by not only his parliamentary colleagues, but a landslide of rank and file conservative party members.
The government led by Boris Johnson has the strongest mandate possible to lead Britain out of the EU. That was the election pledge by which it won office, and that was the result of the national referendum.
How on earth is betraying the voters, betraying your party, betraying the results of a referendum, “saving democracy” ?.
The hono0rable option for those 21, would be to resign their seats, thereby forcing a general election, or at least 21 by-elections, at which time the voters could decide on the validity of their actions.
That would be at least honorable. The truth is these 21 are doing exactly what you accuse the US Senate of doing !
Craig, you must start to think these things through a little more, rather than just parrot leftist gibberish.