Solutions that Won’t Happen

This is gonna be short. It’s Friday. I finished the Senators book. Senators Trent Lott and Tom Daschle wrote, Crisis Point: Why We Must — and How We Can — Overcome Our Broken Politics in Washington and Across America. The portion of the book where they lay out some solutions contains what you would expect; the boys brag on their Bipartisan Policy Center, wax poetic about the past, and put forth changes that will never happen. I can totally see the solutions working; just not happening!

National Primary Day. Oh my God, that would be sweet! New Hampshire’s population — 96 percent white folks — should not have the power they do.

Limit campaign time to five months. It would allow our legislators to actually legislate. You can only spend so much money in five months.

Trying to reform campaign finance with legislative acts haven’t worked; in fact it made it worse. Now we have super and leadership PACs. $900 million dollars — just from one source (Koch brothers, duh!) is in play this year just on one side. We have people that can’t afford to eat. MAKES NO SENSE!

Lets get rid of the “total war” mentality in Congress. They have a job to do. They don’t do it. If Congress doesn’t work, the government kinda falls apart. Answering five-alarm-fires is way harder than preventing them.

The fucking filibuster. You don’t even have to abolish it. Just make it a requirement to be present and speaking again.

I like the way the boys say this better:

The five-day workweek is an elegant solution, direct and simple. It comes from long-standing precedent and practice, one with which all Americans are familiar. It will also set off a snowball effect and address other issues of transience: the lack of community, minimal interaction among lawmakers, and the slow pace of legislation. We guarantee that a poll of Americans would overwhelmingly support a five-day workweek for Congress; however, aversion to Washington remains so high that this same majority would invariably not support their representatives living there.

And of course a call to service to all citizens of the US. More participation in government and society would of course benefit everyone. They do put forth a service for college debt program. I’d be an indentured servant for my student loans to disappear!